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Originally Posted by Pookie
We're getting closer all the time to understanding why people are so willing (and possibly "hard-wired") to believe.
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This is Rahner's 'natural religion', or more loosely, 'the natural yearning for humanity towards God'. I can't remember if he talked about it on a neurological level, but he certainly did on a socio-biological level.
I only mention this because part of the problem I have with 'ration' and 'reason' foisted against religion is that the Church has got an awful lot of ideas that it can appeal to that existed well prior to the enlightenment.
Anyway. All I really want to say is that Quentin Meillassoux's criticism of religion in 'After finitude' is
really good, without actually bothering with the incommensurable, negative-dialectical relationship that Dawkins
et al seem to (to my reading at least).