It doesn't matter how you dissect it. Omnipotent this, omniscient that, believers will still hang on due to their deep seeded need to believe. The Epicurus quote sums it up nicely, but it still echoes inside empty skulls because we only see what we want to see.
One of my closest friends is a pentecostal preacher, and though he and I have had a thousand conversations, despite the fact that I have beaten his regurgitated rhetoric to a pulp on every single encounter, he refuses to take the step because he can't imagine everything happening by chance.
It's this idea of self importance, this quest for purpose. I would say it isn't much of a leap to deduce that most theists know that their little rituals are bullshit. The overwhelming majority of believers are passive at best, that is the reason for the "relationship not religion" epiphany several years back. The ideology is fallible, and they fucking know it. So you call it spirituality instead, a friendship. It's why the asshole on youtube with the "I love jesus but hate religion" video has so many hits. Unfortunately the majority of our species needs this mumbo jumbo to cope. It it all disappeared tomorrow, within a week the Bastards would be worshipping some other divine creator.
It's depressing, I know, I look around me at my fellow man and get this overwhelming nausea when I think about it. Sometimes I think I was born a thousand years too early. My species still hasn't left the caves.
One of my closest friends is a pentecostal preacher, and though he and I have had a thousand conversations, despite the fact that I have beaten his regurgitated rhetoric to a pulp on every single encounter, he refuses to take the step because he can't imagine everything happening by chance.
It's this idea of self importance, this quest for purpose. I would say it isn't much of a leap to deduce that most theists know that their little rituals are bullshit. The overwhelming majority of believers are passive at best, that is the reason for the "relationship not religion" epiphany several years back. The ideology is fallible, and they fucking know it. So you call it spirituality instead, a friendship. It's why the asshole on youtube with the "I love jesus but hate religion" video has so many hits. Unfortunately the majority of our species needs this mumbo jumbo to cope. It it all disappeared tomorrow, within a week the Bastards would be worshipping some other divine creator.
It's depressing, I know, I look around me at my fellow man and get this overwhelming nausea when I think about it. Sometimes I think I was born a thousand years too early. My species still hasn't left the caves.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
