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Do you alone in the world know what animals are thinking?

I provided the very best and most recent research for the absurd position that animals supposedly have their own animal gods, attend regular communal worshipping ceremonies, engage in animal religious ritual, and demonstrate religious behavior outside of a priori instinct and social fitnesses.

You provided... passive aggressiveness.

And if animals now engage in religious ritual, doesn't that make them stupid for not being atheist like you? I expect several YouTube videos of you trying to convert your cat into the enlightened ways of post-theism.

> I provided the very best and most recent research for the absurd position that animals supposedly have their own animal gods

You did nothing of the sort. You provided a link to a video of an anthropologist describing chimpanzee behaviour and indulging in a little light speculation about why they're doing what they're doing.

Nobody is claiming that animals believe in god(s), rather I'm disputing your bizarre assertion that you know that they don't. There is no way to tell.

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