(July 10, 2016 at 7:06 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:(July 10, 2016 at 7:03 pm)LivingNumbers6.626 Wrote: Perhaps because even though humans are inherently logical and investigative, religion satisfies the cravings of human emotion. A lot like the addict, the religious flee to churches to receive their opiate messages of promise and safety. You cannot derive this sort of band aid comfort from the cruel facts of the natural world.
Rather than allow them to drug themselves with religion, we should be capable of finding a way to ensure reality becomes their salvation.
Preferable and agreeable, impossible and unrealistic.
"Just call me Bruce Wayne. I'd rather be Batman."