(February 6, 2018 at 11:16 pm)pool the matey Wrote: I wish they'd do an experiment on this. Two tribes brought up in isolation one with religious influences the other without. My money is on the non religious tribe eating each other once they run out of resources because why not? lol. Despite what we all like to believe humans by nature gravitate towards evil, we are just easier to domesticate because we are good learners.
Sorry to be blunt, but you're a moron.
Have you ever heard of The Donner Party?
They were a Christian group of 85 people (about the same size as most tribes) who, while traveling west, were trapped in an early snow fall in the Sierra Nevada mountains. They ran out of resources, just like your hypothetical tribes, and take a guess what happened. The turned to cannibalism to survive.
So, there is a real world example of your hypothetical experiment, and religious people ate each other.
How much money are you going to send me? I'll PM you my PayPal info.
No wonder you became a theist. You have no intellectual curiosity to find out facts.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
