(October 10, 2012 at 5:06 pm)JohnDG Wrote: I actually do attend church at least once every 2 months out of respect for my friend. Sometimes their pastor does have some inspirational things to say, sometimes he is right about modern day society corroding it's self.
I would contend that this is the primary raison d'être of religion: identify a problem (even where there isn't one) and then sell itself as the remedy. Combine the carrot of salvation with the stick of post-mortem torture and you have a surprisingly potent recruitment tool.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
