(February 1, 2010 at 5:44 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: "A true conspiracy theory is a a proposition about what may have happened based on insufficient evidence. They are never claimed to be truth, only a possible explanation based on incomplete evidence."
This is where I think religion resides... within the realm of reasonable doubt. I dismiss the suggestion that people need religion to explain an additional hidden cause/ agenda. Being so baseless seems totally illogical. I wouldn't even call that actual religion. Just some incredibly naive thinking, possibly on both sides.
I'm comfortable accepting coincidence, chance, and circumstance... as a theist. You logically can't factor out people with different worldviews.
And yet people don't base their life around a conspiracy theory, as described above.
I would never say that all religious people need to believe in a God as a hidden cause and agenda, I should have phrased it better. Some people need to believe in a hidden cause or agenda whether that translates into religion or paranoid conspiracy theories.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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