Quote:If it turned out that god belief was merely a predictable outcome given a certain kind of upbringing and that it resulted in no serious impairment to their mental capacities, would you still be distressed by the existence of believers?
I'll try and give you the bigger picture of where I'm coming from. I'm actually disgusted with all forms of B.S. Things like scams, hoaxes, psychics, frauds and charlatans all piss me off. These sorts of things take advantage of folks who are just unable to figure out that they're being duped.
Religion just happens to be one of the biggest frauds and most damaging scams that I'm aware of. I was raised a christian and I've seen the mental anguish and anxiety cause by religion in my own family. I've seen the psychological damage it does to someone when that individual trusts and believes in a god who just isn't there. Believers are proponents of religion and promote the propagation of same.
But like I've said, I have a problem with all sorts of this type of nonsense. Several years ago I lost a friend who died because she was into homeopathy. No one in her immediate family knew that she was even sick. She hid it from everyone except her brother and sister in-law who had convinced her that all she needed to do was to drink this 'miracle water'. She died suddenly from massive and sudden organ failure without ever even having talked to a doctor.
I just can't abide people who believe in and promote unsubstantiated, irrational nonsense of any type. It's a harmful detriment to society in general...
