Without religion you would have no legal system and cannibalism/slavery would prevail. Grunt grunt, sniff.
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There is evidence that laws and (formal) religion evolved together. Similar social pressures were involved, due to needing clear rules in order to function as a large-scale society. Both involved writing, which in most times and places only a limited number of people knew how to do, thus there was a lot of crossover between religion and government. Both reflected the moral values of the people at the time that they were written, at least to some extent (people could be manipulated or pressured into following things which most didn’t really believe in, but only to a point). It’s a chicken-and-egg issue as to which came first, and might have different answers in different parts of the world.
In modern times you can have one without the other, and most nations try to minimize the crossover between the two.
Also, not only does religion not necessarily prevent slavery, it can and has made slavery far easier.
I’m curious if pj knows how a lot of their fellow bitcoiners think about laws, religious edicts, and other top-down, non-market forms of collective decision making.
Experiment: replace religion with something else.
Without surfing you would have no legal system and cannibalism/slavery would prevail. Grunt grunt, sniff.
...and with Alan Turing on our currency - the £50 note, to be exact - you actually have what you require for your 'currency's existence: the Digital Computer.
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Seems that we're doing fine with an Atheist on our currency that actually exists: as in physically .
Meanwhile, you lot are eating each other as Shitcoin goes down the crapper...!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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