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[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

β€œAll religions are true but none are literal.”
"mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical."

[–] sup@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I like this. I'm an agnostic and I read this book called "The God Theory" by Bernard Haisch. The author is a man of science and approaches this problem from a (semi) scientific perspective.

Over the course of the book, he makes hypotheses and challenges them and eventually arrives at a theory that seems a workable explanation of the state of the world and religion in general.

It's a very interesting read and I would 100% recommend it. It's been a while since I read it, but his theory at the end is not very different from your comment.