(May 4, 2013 at 5:59 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: But what seemingly is true, is that man to an extent needs God and religion. Religion as a structural way to relate to the Divine. These needs don't make God or religion true.
Religion is a structure way to pretend there is the divine.
As to man needing god, man assuredly feel the need to win the lottery to a much greater extend. But the laws of economics requiring money to be backed up by actual productivity, so too many people winning lottery would be disastrous to the society by putting fruit of diminished productivity in the hands of its least productive. In the long run this destroys the society's productivity and with it the value of the lottery itself.
The same applies to his need for god. God meets the desires of the emotionally greedy and dependent. But meet that need, and human progress suffers, and humans extinction becomes more likely.
