(September 16, 2021 at 4:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: What?! Religion is a scam!
Too bad that this won't have any influence on anyone.
Atheists already know it, and believers will just delude themselves with tropes like: "This is not my religion. My religion is not a money scam," and then send some money to David Miscavige or the Pope or Dalai Lama or Church of LDS, etc.
Um not true. This would assume that everyone born being sold religion is incapable of leaving that religion. I was raised Catholic, and as a kid and teen I really wanted to believe it. But others as I aged raised questions to me that caused me to keep questioning, and eventually I ditched religion and God belief because of the questions posed to me.
There are not only former Christians, but former Muslims, former Jews, former Hindus, and former Buddhists.
Now if you want to argue that it is unlikely that the majority of the world will give up on religion, I would agree with that. But in human history, in general, times always change and people are capable of switching positions.
I agree that religion is a scam. But that does not mean because I agree, that we should stop trying to lead others to reality. One can value pluralism, and at the same time try to lead the horse to water.
There are countless people if it were not for, who questioned my beliefs, I would still be a Catholic today.
My quote, "If humans never questioned social norms, our species never would have left the caves."
