(December 10, 2013 at 9:49 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: The internet is becoming so proliferated with contradictory "truths" that it is having the paradoxical effect of promoting fedeism.
It is, for some people. There are people who just want to believe certain things in spite of a real world which continuously contradicts those beliefs, as you yourself demonstrate so well. Religious belief is symptomatic of some critical flaws in human thinking, which is why religion is pervasive even though no individual religion is pervasive. Thing is, that's still a dramatic improvement over the days in which liars and mythologically-blinded religious fools had the power to make sure that everybody learned and internalized their lies from an early age, safe in the knowledge that alternative sources of information could be easily suppressed.
It will likely work out in favor of reason in the end, because when a person can compare so many myths, it is easier to see that they are all myths because they share so many vital similarities.
