(June 8, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Why are they all so fucking illogical and idiotic? Moreover, why are so many people dumb enough to be "persuaded" by them?
The problem is - gods have been defined by the "people" who created them
If only one person made the claims - it is possible that they would not contradict themselves. But as long as gods like the xtian one(Three) - are defined by VOTE - based on lots of different claims - the humans who voted forgot to edit the claims to eliminate things that cannot all be true at the same time.
Young people believe in Santa Claus because adults they trust say Santa is real. And - kids want Santa to be real - because they want the things Santa stands for in their minds.
The same exists for claimed gods - the people see the actually things that exist on this earth - and want to believe that this is not the only existence - that you have to be rewarded for having lived in this convoluted nightmare that the earth can be.
Where once - the existence of a god was actually used as the Government - people have already admitted that religion is NOT the ideal form of government - and that some type of representation is superior to the brutality that religions wrought in the world.
However - there are still lots of religions that dominate regions of the world - and these people are carefully indoctrinated at an early age =- to except the claims of the religion OR ELSE. This is more likely in areas where education is limited - and poor is the norm.
Educated people - on the other hand - largely reject the claims of religion - and have moved on in the Western world. Those that have not are just ignorant.
