RE: What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God?
December 11, 2015 at 6:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2015 at 6:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's not -just- an ideological product. You and I don't believe this stuff, but I'd bet every dollar I have that you and I both have perceived or invested agency and/or intent to something that had neither. It's not simply an issue of thinking a god into existence, we have actual physical ticks that conspire, along with our thinking brains, to create such fictions as gods. I'm not saying we're doomed, I don't see the doom, lol. You/we can be as religious as all hell about daisies and sunflowers. It's the specifics we obsess about, the types of misconceptions and ticks that stick, that cause the problems, not that we're capable of obsessing, that we're prone to misconception, that we have ticks.
You ever talked anyone out of their religion? Brought them around to your point of view? I haven't. I'm satisfied to have them incorporate things like modern synth -into- their religion..that's a best case scenario for me. That their personal faith accommodates reality insomuch as it can and insomuch as they, individually, need to.
You ever talked anyone out of their religion? Brought them around to your point of view? I haven't. I'm satisfied to have them incorporate things like modern synth -into- their religion..that's a best case scenario for me. That their personal faith accommodates reality insomuch as it can and insomuch as they, individually, need to.
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