foo ✅ on Nostr: That's the tough question. We've got 20 centuries of sunk costs into this religion. ...

That's the tough question. We've got 20 centuries of sunk costs into this religion. People need some kind of a hopeful narrative/ethical framework - that's what it supplies plus a lot of other emotional hooks. Brutal nature and indifferent science while factual are not comforting stories to tell the children....