But when they have religious beliefs, respect them. The way to happiness can become contentious when one fails to respect the religious beliefs of others. Upholders of this philosophy felt they had to neglect religion because they could not reduce it to mathematics. They were attacked by religious interests and in their turn attacked religions. The theories seek to explain away such things as minds by saying they can be reduced to physical things or their motions.
Materialism is a very ancient idea.
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