(February 24, 2017 at 10:27 am)mh.brewer Wrote:(February 24, 2017 at 8:43 am)Adventurer Wrote: 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.
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?
Are you saying you believe that their is or ever has been a segment of society who lives, and is not deluded by an idealism or philosophy that makes of the core of who they are???
Even the snow flakes know better than this. It's easy to point out someone else's 'delusion' but it tends to be more difficult to find and eliminate your own.