(January 22, 2012 at 7:39 pm)SleepingDemon Wrote: It's this idea of self importance, this quest for purpose.
That's another factor that drives the nonsensical beliefs like religion. So it sums up 3 most crucial factors of religious drive:
1. Fear of peer punishment.
2. Ostracism.
3. Idea of self importance.
If these factors are dealt with and deemed to be useless, will the religion collapsed? If not, what's crucial factor we're missing? False rewards of an afterlife, such as immortality?