(March 18, 2022 at 3:07 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(March 18, 2022 at 3:01 pm)Astreja Wrote: Well, few seven-year-olds have the opportunity to study logical fallacies, y'know.Maybe God favors power hungry people over people who are not that way?
On a balance of probability, though, given the total lack of credible evidence for the existence of gods and the substantial history of exploitation by religious leaders and their secular allies, it's a moot point. Religion does serve as an instrument of social control, and a lot of power-hungry mortals have reaped the benefits of this control, and it does not appear that any genuine gods did anything to prevent this exploitation.
Maybe so - but we're already circling the drain of who cares either way to begin with. I think that the religiously inclined might want to put more work into a religion that people want to join before they waste their time insisting that it's true.
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