(April 23, 2017 at 12:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(April 23, 2017 at 12:01 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Invent the problem, sell the cure. At least snake oil salesmen actually have snake oil to sell.
I agree that all religions get invented as upstarts in a response to what they see around them are the flaws of surrounding and prior religions. But I don't think most humans buy it because the are conning others, most humans simply get sold the religion of their parents. But yea, that also allows cons to exploit them too.
You can truly believe something and not feel that you are trying to con someone, and others are conning you and don't give a shit.
That's because the con is self-propagating. There's no mechanism for fact checking, nor tolerance for corrected facts. You only need to read AiG's statement of faith to realise that.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
