(June 15, 2014 at 1:01 am)psychoslice Wrote: I think weak minded people need something like religion to keep them from doing harm to themselves and others, where as more intelligent people don't need a god watching over them to see if they do right or wrong, they just simple do what is right for the society, what works for themselves and others, not what some god in the sky wants them to do.
I would modify this a bit - because I don't think it correlates necessarily with intelligence.
Most people seem to want answers that give them purpose, over those that reflect reality. I don't know.