RE: When (potentially) great minds go wrong
June 23, 2011 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2011 at 8:00 am by Faith No More.)
(June 23, 2011 at 1:35 am)Kayenneh Wrote: @FaithNoMore: Yes, but it is then so wrong for me to mourn when knowledge is lost and humans become stuffed with their self-importance? To be so unsure as to turn to a deity, just because your life might not have meaning otherwise, is despicable to me.
Not at all. The loss of a potentially great mind to delusion should always be mourned. I was merely trying to explain why really intelligent people can believe in superstitious nonsense. To me it's not despicable, it's just sad. People need to find meaning in their lives, but when someone takes the easy way and believes an all powerful deity is shaping the world to their needs, society as a whole loses out.
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
