(October 23, 2016 at 7:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:Theists simply do not understand that all deity/god/God claims are in our species history are merely a reflection of their own human attributes and flaws and desires and insecurities.
Be careful with that one. When you accuse a religious person of being insecure they may: 1) Eject you from society; 2) Set things on fire (your house, your car, your genitals); or 3) Enslave your children.
But, to be fair, they only do these things to show that they're not insecure.
Boru
Desire and...... You miss that part. You can falsely attribute your belonging to a club to a false sense of confidence and security, but it is sill coming from a place of desire to belong which is the insecurity in our species mistaken for confidence. The narcissism of our species is what that is.
You can certainly be brave in defending a falsehood and our species has gone to very dark places leading others to follow in such horrible unchecked ideas. But again, that is bravery based on the fear of being wrong. Not intellectual bravery when faced with the prospect of being wrong, the willingness to change positions when faced with that prospect.
Back when 9/11 happened some pundits and celebrities got blasted for calling the hijackers brave. They most certainly were, but in the wrong way. They went to their deaths just like the Japanese Kamikazes would slam their planes into Allied ships. It still did not make their oppressive shacking up with Hitler moral. And it still came from a place of fear of being dominated.
