(December 26, 2015 at 5:33 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 26, 2015 at 3:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The only difference between a holy book and a comic book is that one is believed to be fact and the political power to impose it's will on others. Never see anyone starting wars over Star Wars or Harry Potter do you?
Believing something to be real happens for a reason, it provokes cognitions in the brain. Regardless, you yourself point out the difference that your first post denied existed, so take your cognitive dissonance and shove it up your ass.
Yes belief that something is real DOES happen for a reason, but that is not the same as it being real. And yes all beliefs get formed in the brain. YES. But that does not make the claim bought or sold true just because the communication between multiple people happens. It merely means you run into a claim. It doesn't mean the claim itself is valid.
It was NEVER true that men came from dirt.
It was NEVER true that a woman came from a man's rib.
So why did people back then write those claims and and put it in a holy book?
For the same reason the Ancient Egyptians had their sun god and savior god Horus born from Isis. Creating fantasitic claims and believing those fantastic claims and calling them gods is simply an adult form of fantasy. Falsely DOES happen for a reason, and that reason is ignorance. I don't mean stupid, I mean they didn't know any better. No different than a kid if they believe you when you sell them Santa. It is gap filling.
Our species flaw is we gap fill and those false perceptions get turned into god claims and religions. Humans once also thought the angry volcano was a god. But that really is no different than selling a kid Santa. Sell it to them when they are sponges some will buy it right off the bat. Religion is no different. Humans in all of antiquity, both monotheism and polytheism did not have modern tools and all of them gap filled and created fantastic stories to give themselves a sense of self importance.
False perceptions are also why conspiracies like 9/11 and Big Foot get started. Religion is simply one type of false perception. But it is the biggest political power based on false perception.
I know it offends some people to hear me put it like that yes, but that doesn't make me wrong. When I say claiming a God is no different than Yoda, I am not saying that out of meanness . I am saying that because they both appeal to emotions, both commit fantastic feats as depicted in forms of media such as books or movies and those depictions in both go beyond nature, but only one is believed to be fact.
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If our species never questioned social norms our species never would have left the caves.
