(May 21, 2014 at 1:08 pm)Lucanus Wrote: Hi there people of AF!
Recently, I have been asking myself: what is the point of Creationism?
Apart from being an obvious con that lets people like Ken Ham or Ray Comfort live on other people's ignorance, that is.
The thought of deluded people still believing that what was told by a tribe of goat herders 4000 years ago and trying to push this shit on their peers does really make me sad and makes me want to punch Ken Hams and Ray Comforts in the nuts.
Of course, it's quite likely they might actually be greedy, deep-undercover atheist conmen.
But what if the reason why they try to push creationism and ignorance was that they are "atheists gone wrong"? By that, I mean they were originally brought up in a strict religious environment but eventually grew out of their beliefs; still, they didn't find a positive outcome for their atheism and started to advocate their old beliefs in order to keep themselves sane and to prevent other people in their cult from following their steps. Essentially, I'm saying that they are people who tried to think with their own heads, but who failed to face the consequences.
I know this might sound a lot like a conspiracy theory but I believe that something interesting could spark from this... What do you guys think? :-)
I would not call it a conspiracy because most humans get sold the religion of their parents from birth. That is worldwide with all religions.
Having said that, humans don't like their social norms upset, and you have basically two camps, the ones who don't like being corrected, but truly believe the claims of antiquity and will try to retrofit modern science after the fact, then there are the con artists who know better but don't give a shit.
BELIEVE ME, this is not unique to Christianity. You will find members and apologists in every religion worldwide, that when they cant get away with quoting their writings or leaders they will attack science. But, when they cant get away with attacking science, then they resort to trying to claim science points to their club.
BUT, every religion in the world has members and apologists who try those tactics.
The only thing that can be said about our entire species, in the history of all written religions, is humans get sold a story and it is hard for most to scrap it because they get sold the story when they are too young to formulate critical thinking skills.
DO THIS to see what I am talking about....
Google the following.
"Christian science"
"Jewish science"
"Hindu science"
"Muslim science"
"Buddhist science"
You will find apologists in every religion. Ones whom will either try to attack science, or try to claim it points to their writings/clubs.
