(February 24, 2017 at 8:43 am)Adventurer Wrote:(February 24, 2017 at 8:32 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Psychology. Weak psyches (sp?).
That's not a sophisticated answer. It's like a shortcut to thinking.
Let's make this a debate. Shall we get started?
Let's be speculative as well as using historical evidence. The question isn't asking merely who wrote religions and what their political motives were. The question is multilayered: have they made differences in human history? Without religions, how would the world today be? What impacts, whether positive, negative or both, did they have upon today's world and the future ? So on.
Not sophisticated and shortcut are only your opinion.
I don't care about historical evidence. The motives were to have a man made fantasy delusion provide explanations and make comfortable lives/situations for which the culture/society did not have an answer for. The religion(s) then became a manipulative tool, sometimes used for good, some for bad.
Any potential benefits derived from the delusion of god(s)/religion(s) has now run it's course. It is a tool that has become obsolete. The people that need the delusion today to make their life complete are welcome to it, as long as they don't force that belief on to others. And there is the rub. It's still being used to manipulate societies. The religious feel that they are part of a higher standard that needs to be applied, by force if necessary, to all.
So, remove god/religion from the human condition. How would you classify the psyche of an individual or group that depended on a delusion as an integral part of their existence?
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.