(April 21, 2016 at 10:24 pm)maestroanth Wrote: One thing I was thinking is that a prime motivator for man to create God is the need for immortality and our discomfort with the permanence of death.
The Greeks were promised a miserable afterlife. The Egyptians were in peril after they died, with no guarantee of making it to immortality.
Today immortality is the carrot AND stick for religion. "Do what we tell you and you'll be in Heaven forever. Don't and you'll be in Hell forever." And they don't have to back up this claim, the believers do the heavy lifting when they assume faith.
Idiots.
