It's not because I say so at all. It's because we can observe history and see that humans have been spiritual for as long as they have been civilized at least. I've not tried to impose anything on you and I haven't talked at all about religions or religious beliefs. It's not fears and superstitions, we covered that earlier, it can't be. Just like we covered my feelings toward science and it wasn't revulsion.
It's almost as if you're not listening to a word I am saying here. If you just want to stick your virtual fingers in your ears and be a troll, I suppose you can do that. lots of folks do that here.
You're insisting that all of humanity has been something you call "spiritual" yet you provide no support for that. Worse, you can't even define this "spiritual'ness" you have unilaterally applied to humanity.
It's true that most religionists hope to apply their partisan gawds and belief systems to humanity as you do but I need to advise that your mere say-so is not a convincing argument.
Humanity is evolving away from such mythologies as "spirit realms" and angry gawds who threaten to return to earth and open a can of unholy whoop-ass, that much is clear. Religious beliefs have nowhere near the power and clout they used to, and as science progresses forward, the god of the gaps and the "spirit realm" pleadings get thinner and thinner.
Humans have been spiritual as long as they've been civilized according to archeology. I didn't "insist" that, and the "support" is the findings of the archaeologists. I'm sorry if you're too dumb to comprehend what other humans mean by the word "spiritual." I don't know about partisan gods, but a good online dictionary can define spirituality for you, if you're having difficulty.
The statistics do not show humans "evolving away" from spirituality and you've offered no support for that claim. Certain religions rise while others fall, that has been happening for thousands of years. But religion is not spirituality. There are people who are spiritual and not religious at all (like me). Atheism may be on the rise but Atheism is not complete rejection of all things spiritual. In Sweden, the most Atheist country in the world, only half of those who identify as such are willing to say they don't believe in any possibility of something greater than self. Nihilism is the word we use to define people who have no belief in anything spiritual whatsoever. Nihilists represent about 5% of the population and this statistic is constant over the past 200 years at least.
This must be the Angry Bossy persona as you're still struggling to find some way to defend your indefensible claims to your invented "spiritual" meme. We already discussed your inability to define your "spirit realms" and your insistence to impose those realms on humanity. You simply can't retroactively assign your religious beliefs to those who had no conception of your gawds and your spirit realms.
Religious fanaticism is the label we assign to those who insist on trying to force their gawds and spirit realms on others.
I think the truth is useful. You should try it sometime. Why do far fewer people believe in literal creationism now than in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Certainly, back then no one had yet proposed a viable alternative to the creation hypothesis. In large part this was because the religious authorities had greater influence and managed to rigorously suppress the scientific community. A satisfactory naturalistic explanation for the diversity of life had not been proposed. The origin of the universe was even a bigger mystery. Things are different now. The religious orthodoxy in particular was finally pushed aside as the overwhelming evidence for biological evolution was demonstrated. That was a positive development for humanity. I can’t imagine a world wherein humanity was consigned to forever being under the yoke of ideologies such as yours that shroud the natural world in fear and superstition.
Why do far fewer people believe in literal creationism now than in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Certainly, back then no one had yet proposed a viable alternative to the creation hypothesis. In large part this was because the religious authorities had greater influence and managed to rigorously suppress the scientific community....
I know that religious authority was quite skeptical of science back then, but can you name any significant (or insignificant) scientific discovery which was not eventually accepted? What got suppressed? Seems to me, valid scientific discovery cannot be suppressed.
To answer your question, I don't know that fewer people believe in literal creationism now as opposed to centuries ago, the world population is much higher and Christian or Abrahamic religions continue to grow overall. Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Africa, second only to Islam. So where is your basis for argument here? And what do you mean by "Literal" creationism? Isn't that simply meaning how you interpreted the story? See, the thing is, many people believe in a literal creation, as described in the Bible, but they don't agree with your interpretation of that story. In fact, many religious people dispute among themselves the aspects of literal interpretations. But I am not here to argue this, I am not speaking of religious views. My argument is for human spirituality which supersedes all religious belief.