(December 26, 2015 at 5:56 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.
It isn't mere adult fantasy. There are effects on the brain which differentiate it from fantasy. You're simplifying what can't be simplified, solely for the sake of scoring a rhetorical point against theism. The brain is everything we are. If the mental soup is different because of the practice of faith, then the reality of it is different. And until you acknowledge the very real effects of religious practices on the brain, all your attempts to reason with a theist will be in vain.