(February 12, 2016 at 7:54 am)robvalue Wrote: Further to that, if you feel you really need a book and a bunch of priests etc. telling you how you should act, there's something seriously wrong with you in the first place. I don't see that any of them have anything more important to say than you could get through common sense; and that's the good parts of it.
It's often the other way around, of course. People have made up their mind how they want to act, and can rely on religious justification rather than a rational one. It's when they realize the religious angle isn't cutting it and they try and justify bigotry through "logic and science" that it becomes all too clear what rubbish it is.
Or they've been indoctrinated with prejudice since a young age. This is probably the most likely scenario, actually.
Well to be fair, while modern science isn't allowing excuses for naked assertions, the evolutionary reality is that this gap filling is a flaw in our perceptions of reality.
Our species perceptions of reality are notoriously flawed, and gap filling is a way for our species to cope where answers lacked. It literally stems from life having to make quick decisions and not always having the time to slow down and test our perceptions. As a result of our species starting out in scientific ignorance we simply projected our human qualities on non human things in the form of super natural.
Delusion in the form of gap filling is natural, not good, but natural, it is a result of an imperfect reality. The good part of our evolution, despite that messy reality, is that we have and continue to overcome our false perceptions.
