(May 2, 2016 at 8:40 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The idea that man needs a god is silly. According to the major fairy tales the god characters are despicable. They inflict unlimited pain and suffering on humanity. They promise spectacular rewards for the few idiots who actually believe in them and do their bidding. The rest of humanity gets eternal punishment.
Since no god of any kind has ever shown up in all of its reputed splendor everyone has to imagine what his favorite deity really is. Therefore all gods are imaginary. The con men who came up with the stories never saw the gods they fabricated. Yet today countless people think that the popular images of Jesus are factual. That's evidence of insanity.
I don't think most humans who believe are con men, and I don't even think the founders of all the ancient religions were always con men. Humans back then didn't know any better so some were merely deluded and others were not only deluded, but con artists as well. Not really that different than today, other than humans really don't have much of an excuse in the developed western free world especially with the age of the internet. You simply look silly clinging to that old stuff now.
