(August 19, 2019 at 10:47 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(August 19, 2019 at 10:04 pm)Lek Wrote: I don't think so. Belief in God has been pervasive in mankind as far back we can detect. It's not just a figment of someone's imagination. People imagine all kinds of things, but the majority of people from every corner of the world, have not embraced and carried on the belief in pink elephants.
No, it’s a calculated fraud.
Even in fraud there is evolution, selection, the survival and propagation of the most successfully deceptive and coercive. Pink elephants just didn’t make the cut and has been outcompeted.
Not to mention that very few have believed in the same god the same way.
Yes, there are whole groups who are called “Christians”, “Muslims”, or whatever, but how many different denominations are there of each?
And I doubt if Ugh the Neanderthal believed his angry god of thunder was the Christian god.
Dying to live, living to die.