Theistic Religions Aren't Alive Until You Select Hierarchical Gods

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Echri: It seems like if this hypothesis that we over correct and seeing agency like that could be exactly what we're finding, which is that people do see different kinds of things as alive with agency and having agency. And so it could be that there is something like a, if my daily existence depends on the deer being there to hunt, or the bicye being there to Hunt,. All sorts of things like the river and the mountain. These are all really important to your sort of everyday survival. Echri: I know some of this work too, s the god of the bible, or the greek gods, are really just almost metaphors for the king roin, the

Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 analytic philosophy journal. Could a failed argument for the existence of God establish the existence of trees and mountains with “interiority” and “social characteristics”? Tamler wants to believe, but is the argument that'll push him over the edge?

Plus – speaking of top journals, a doozy of social psych article: Is forgiveness better than revenge at rehumanizing the self? Let's check the voodoo dolls to find out. Tamler is delighted by David’s reaction to this one.