(January 19, 2017 at 8:20 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: You know, I've been watching this thread and I'm seriously wondering, while everyone is comparing the tooth fairy to a magical sky daddy, and the fact that grown adults are crazy if they believe in one but not the other, then why it is perfectly acceptable for small children to believe in the tooth fairy AND a god? Neither the tooth fairy or god are ever "seen" by anyone. But the fact that children are taught to believe in both (by adults, no less!), seems to be okay.
Because children don't know any better, their mental faculties have not developed to such a degree that they should realize just how ridiculous it all is. But as they get older, they develop the capacity to reason and they stop believing in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny. We would think that an adult who believed in any of those things has something seriously wrong with them. But for gods, we just let that childhood fantasy continue indefinitely.
It's just pathetic.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
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