Then why isn't Latin still alive? Because there is a whole fuckton more to it than that.
it is. I took it for 4 years. I'm going to be a pimp if I ever visit vatican city
Then why isn't Latin still alive? Because there is a whole fuckton more to it than that.
there is one flaw in your theory. latin isn't a religion
because in those times they didn't even have a basic understanding of the world around them.
we don't worship the sun anymore. we moved on to something else and something else and something else. they were passed on through teaching, not a god sector in the brain
yes, because they were taught about the crutch and now they rely on it
because in those times they didn't even have a basic understanding of the world around them. religion/mysticism/spirituality/etc is the caveman's explanation for why the sun disappears at night. in a world where rational thought and reasoned analysis can begin to explain the natural world, those should be the methods used to answer the question of what lies beyond, not looking back to thousand year old texts with dragons and giants.
What is it a crutch for, if not scientific knowledge anymore?
a crutch for the unknown. people are weak and need some spooky divine puppet master to look up to, thank when things go well and curse when things go bad
a crutch for the unknown. people are weak and need some spooky divine puppet master to look up to, thank when things go well and curse when things go bad
You are, once again (and oddly), ignoring the fact that billions of people daily pray to gods in ways that have nothing to do with replacing scientific knowledge or explaining mysterious phenomena.
Clearly you don't understand Judaism or Christianity. You might want to read the book of Job.
If you are so damn smart, then explain to the world what caused the mini-Ice Age from ~1350 to ~1850 in Northern Europe and the northern half of North America. Otherwise your just another secularist humanist who has the arrogance thinking that you know it all.