(October 9, 2015 at 12:18 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: There's a big difference between realistic assessment of probability based on a lifetime of experience, and believing in something backed by nothing but people who believe in it saying it's true.
Especially when those people have no more reason to believe these things than anyone else and have a vested interest in suckering people in. Ker-ching.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'