RE: Do religions promote insanity?
December 11, 2012 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2012 at 1:22 am by Dee Dee Ramone.)
(December 11, 2012 at 1:12 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(December 11, 2012 at 12:53 am)RichardP Wrote: not believing that there will be a never-ending paradise after they die...
Ok that last one is a little depressing...
Perhaps - but it does encourage you to greatly value the time you have.
Carpe diem!
(December 11, 2012 at 1:04 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: I think maybe there is a kind of group insanity in religion that just doesn't exist with an otherwise mentally healthy individual. Take preachers who can make whole groups of people fall down 'by the word of the lord.' You couldn't do it with an audience of one, but when people are in a pack they do ridiculous things because they think it's what's expected of them. We seem to get stupider the larger of a group we are in, and religion is the best example of that.
I used to think in the same way, I thought it was a sort of mass-psychosis. But isn't it inherent to human nature to conform to what you're raised with?
