Come on, it’s way more common than that. We’ve invented 3000+ gods and almost as many religions, most of them are incompatible with each other. So, most of these must be incorrect, so a huge amount of self-deception. But as Harari argued in his book sapiens, humans can be inspired to great things by stories, even if false. Self deception has served humanity in a big way.

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graemep 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> t. We’ve invented 3000+ gods and almost as many religions, most of them are incompatible with each other.

1. Most people believe in the same one God

2. A lot of the rest are compatible

3. Mistakes are not self-deception

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kowbell 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

> 1. Most people believe in the same one God

> 2. A lot of the rest are compatible

No one religion covers "most people." You could argue that Christianity and Islam (which add up to ~55%) are the same God because of their Abrahamic roots, but both religions have very important disagreements on the true nature of God that are fundamental to their beliefs and fundamentally incompatible with each other.

Their definitions of God do agree that there is exactly one God... which is fundamentally incompatible with the next two biggest religions (Hinduism and Buddhism) that both hold "there are many gods/divine heavenly beings" as core beliefs.

	▲	ako 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, and all Jews think Jesus is a fake. And on top of that all the past gods, Roman, Greek, Inca, Vikings, etc.