Marnie Wrote:I have been wondering how religions, in particular Christianity, gain willing adult converts.
They actively get converts by seeking out the uneducated and credulous. They passively get converts, because the fear of an inevitable death is too much for some to bear.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell