re: #7 Bob Levin

Are you talking Megalith religion or something more recent?

Both.

It’s hard to talk about religion without running into strawmen. That’s the problem. How do you define religion without creating a strawman, or quoting someone who amounts to a strawman?

I would say that there aren’t answers, because the act of breaking strawmen cancels out something very close to 100% of religion’s answers. So what’s left? We’re left looking at the original texts and quite a bit of work, sharing square one with philosophers and physicists.

That’s the difference - philosophers and physicists don’t need the revelatory texts at all. The world is the “text”.