(September 12, 2016 at 9:14 am)Brian37 Wrote: Religion is of false comfort.What's a "false comfort"? Comfort is a feeling-- either someone feels comfort, or they don't. Faith brings comfort to some, and this is a benefit of faith.
Quote:Religion is really just another way of our species to make excuses to set up social order. In reality it is still gap filling, a sugar pill.That's a pretty narrow view of religion. If you think you can take thousands of years of human experience and thought, and "wrap it up" in a sentence, then I'd like to suggest that you need to broaden your view.
Religion includes superstition, instinct, wonder, history, moral ideas, and a wealth of metaphor and symbolism: much of the human experience. Yes, the things you said are part of the truth-- religion often IS used to control others. but to say it's "really just" that is almost infinitely too closed-minded.