(October 4, 2016 at 12:32 pm)InquiringMind Wrote: So if services are so boring, why do people attend? In spite of the atheist crowd fantasizing about the end of religion, religion remains quite popular. Religiosity is declining in America, but still, lots of people go to church on Sunday. There's got to be something in it for them.
What better way to show how pious you are to your god? "Look at me, lord. Look at how I suffer through this boring shit just for you. Look at how much I filled that collection plate. Don't forget this when I show up at the pearly gates."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
