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To make the moon a graveyard goes against the beliefs of various human religions.

Here’s a look at what believers would say about this winter’s attempt to send a probe holding the remains of paying customers to the lunar surface

https://theconversation.com/why-having-human-remains-land-on-the-moon-poses-difficult-questions-for-members-of-several-religions-221399
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@skydog @TheConversationUS @philosophy What is the "lane" religion is to be confined to? I can't tell here and it seems integral to your argument.

Or maybe a better question is "what are you bundling up as " religion" here?

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I see. There's a good deal more going on here (& w/ religion in general). A key insight from RS is that “religion” has no singular non-reductive definition, only a family resemblance of features. So can only define religion for the purposes of a given discussion. You take value derived from myth as religion's core here.

What's the most helpful way to think about myths and values?

Screenshot from a lecture that reads as follows: Reductive Definitions of Religion - Below are examples of definitions of religions different scholars have used. - Each is reductive (misses stuff about religion that’s important to talk about) in some sense. FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER (Protestant theologian) | Religion is “the feeling of absolute dependence. KARL MARX (economic and political theorist) Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Text continues WILLIAM JAMES (psychologist and philosopher) “Religion... shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. EMILE DURKHEIM (sociologist) A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden —beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. SIGMUND FREUD (psychologist) | Religion would thus be the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity.
PAUL TILLICH (Protestant theologian) | Faith is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern. CHARLES LONG (religious studies scholar) Religion will mean orientation-orientation in the ultimate sense, that is, how one comes to terms with the ultimate significance of one’s place in the world. Source o Prothero, Stephen. Religion Matters.

An illustration of Wittgenstein's Notion of “Family Resemblance”. Text reads: "Each member of the set contains three of the four features, but none of them have all four, much like the features of a genetic family." There are four shapes to the side. There are then four bundles of shapes, each with unique combinations of shapes.
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    @skydog @TheConversationUS @philosophy

    Myths are stories that fill the world with meaning and value. Humanism has its myths (answers to questions of meaning) too---and some are quite cosmological in scope.

    “Values are ideas about what people ought to want.”

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