(May 14, 2014 at 8:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: 1) Function of Religion: to bring Man knowledge of the Divine and to join us in communion with that Divinity.
2) Someone that does not believe should look more closely to see the spiritual realities of life.
3) No. There is no secular alternative.
But religion doesn't bring us knowledge of the divine. It brings social strife and division, but doesn't bring any meaningful experience of or communion with divinity.
2. There are no spiritual realities discernible from the perspective of someone who has spent 20 years looking. No reasonable explanation ends in "magic".
3. How can someone indoctrinated since birth possibly present the argument that there is no secular alternative?