"Utterly ridiculous. Faith is belief without evidence."
tackattack, You don't see anything wrong with your above statement, seriously? I do not consider my "hatred" for religious belief as biased since I don't hate religious belief. I simply have a hard time understanding how someone who is shown plainly how superficial those beliefs are cling so tenaciously to a lie. My argument is based on the history of religion itself and not only on objective or subjective evidence and research. Mankind has always worshiped something, or someone, at one time or another. Some people will attribute this to a yet to be proven "god gene" or some other nonsense, but history has shown that religion grew out of mans fears and ignorance of the world he lived.
Most of our oldest religions were the worship of nature itself this included, earth, trees, animals, the sky, the stars, etc. later we gave these very natural things names and personalities (polytheism), then we decided to put all of these gods together and make him one god (monotheism). We have worshipped animals, idols made by our own hands, rocks, and even other men. The history of religion itself attest to it's very mundane and human origins.
tackattack, You don't see anything wrong with your above statement, seriously? I do not consider my "hatred" for religious belief as biased since I don't hate religious belief. I simply have a hard time understanding how someone who is shown plainly how superficial those beliefs are cling so tenaciously to a lie. My argument is based on the history of religion itself and not only on objective or subjective evidence and research. Mankind has always worshiped something, or someone, at one time or another. Some people will attribute this to a yet to be proven "god gene" or some other nonsense, but history has shown that religion grew out of mans fears and ignorance of the world he lived.
Most of our oldest religions were the worship of nature itself this included, earth, trees, animals, the sky, the stars, etc. later we gave these very natural things names and personalities (polytheism), then we decided to put all of these gods together and make him one god (monotheism). We have worshipped animals, idols made by our own hands, rocks, and even other men. The history of religion itself attest to it's very mundane and human origins.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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