Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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Yeah, I mean, look, I'm an atheist, and I'm not in the military, and I don't play team sport, and I'm aching for ritual, right?
I mean, I would love a ritual.
I mean, I don't believe in God, but the experience of church for me is quite pleasant, and sometimes I'll go to church just because it feels good, right?
And you don't need to believe in God to enjoy church, particularly if there's music there and a really good speaker, a really good minister, right?
And you can be a total stone-cold atheist and really enjoy that hour quite a lot because it's about community.
It's about connecting laterally, not to God, right?
For some it is, I suppose, but you don't even need that.
It connects, it makes everyone the same.
In a church, everyone's the same.
We're all the same before God or before each other.
And that's like a super moving thing to experience.
Yeah, I mean, the word spiritual is sort of a tricky one, but I... You know what I mean.
Yeah, I take your point though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think the...
It's adaptive.
For humans, it's been adaptive for hundreds of thousands of years.
It's been adaptive to contribute to the common good, because if the group is good, you're good, right?
And so it's adaptive to have that sort of affiliation, that desire to have a duty, to be of service, right?
And all evolution is sort of selfish, right?
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