RE: Why is religion especially Christianity so widely practied?
February 12, 2019 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 10:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 12, 2019 at 8:51 am)Acrobat Wrote: What's the alternative?The alternative to not believing in fairy tales? I don;t think you have a solid grasp on how believable fairy tales are, even as a relative measure. The religious -themselves- discount the vast majority of fairy tales. All but one, in nearly every case.
Quote:For me personally as a Christian, I find it to be a pretty rich tradition, that it far more easier to identify with christian writers, thinkers, people, than non-christians and atheists. I've been privileged in living a life among believers who were positive role modes, positive influences, with very little of the negative types many here seem to have encountered. People who seem to be honest with themselves, authentic, and real, loving, and kind. All these things add to making me more inclined to be believer, than an unbeliever.LOL..you are one of the "negative types". Here's something to consider..what about what a bunch of people do, or how you perceive those people..has anything to do with gods? Why would or should the one inform you as to the other?
96% of all of the time since full modernity there have been honest, authentic, real, loving and kind human beings..who believed in some other god, or no god at all. Your god is an artifact of only the most recent 4%, and those people from before still exist in that 4%. Full on secular humanism is older than christianity, even. Why does this immense mass of people and time not inform you, similarly, of the validity of their beliefs (or lack thereof), beliefs explicitly in contradiction to your own?
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