Those aren’t utopian, just realistic. Anarchy is your utopia, is it not? How is it any less silly?
I’d go as far as to argue that any sort of long term anarchy is impossible because people are naturally inclined to some sort of society, order, hierarchy, government, whatever you want to call it.
Anarchy can only occur during a short state of transition from one political system to another.
Faith, therefore theism, is a necessary force in life.
Do you believe, have faith, that you will live beyond today, tomorrow, next week? You do have faith in this belief. You don’t know it for certain. You may die next week, tomorrow, or today. You don’t know.
Faith is the necessary response to doubt. Faith represents hope. Doubt represents fear. Everybody fears death, and so uses hope (faith) as the catharsis against death.
Everybody who believe they’re going to live tomorrow, is a theist, as a necessary logical conclusion to this equation.
You have faith in something. You believe, you act as if, you will live beyond tomorrow. Therefore you are a theist, and religious, to a small degree at least.
If you truly believed you had one week to live, then would you go to work? Probably not. Would you save money? Probably not. People only work, and only save money, because they believe, have faith, that their lives will be longer than they maybe.
We used to have a good variety of religious thinkers from various perspectives, even theists, that posted in here regularly. Now this thread is basically a microcosm for this section of the forums!
Is it a good thing that the majority of humans are religious?
Is it good that they would want to serve an ultimate, loving, just figure from ancient history?
Or should we only serve our self?
Even the most primitive humans established some sort of social hierarchy and roles. We can even observe this behavior in pack animals. It’s in the nature of the more intelligent living beings, especially those of same species to form bonds and live in packs.
Anarchy just doesn’t quite cut it for the large majority of people because we enjoy the living standards of a political system, even if it isn’t perfectly just.
I love having water, electricity, food and such available to me easily because it lets me focus on the more important stuff, such as reading books and studying, and that is exactly what makes us humans evolve and gain knowledge so quickly, the fact that we don’t have to worry about basic things.