RE: At what point does faith become insanity?
April 30, 2023 at 4:14 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2023 at 4:20 am by Anomalocaris.)
(April 30, 2023 at 12:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: The thing is that religion has the ability to overcome common sense in people and make them act unreasonably.
Like the ritual that Hindus in India have where they roll a small child into a cow's dung because they believe that the goddess cow will give them a good life. Now, sanity in them tells them that they should stay away from shit because it is smelly, dirty, and probably contain diseases, but religion overrides that common sense and makes them behave insanely.
And there are plenty of other rituals in all other religions as well.
it is not merely that religion has that ability. religion was most valued for that very ability, developed specifically to provide ability, and nurtured continuously to further heighten that ability.
it is not an accidental poison. it is something developed specifically to be poisonous by assiduous trial and error plus considerable malevolent insight into human nature, and diligently nurtured to keep it at least one step ahead of any crowd immunity to its poison as those might develop.
