RE: Help: jumped on for seeking scientific proof of spiritual healing
February 20, 2015 at 10:30 am
(February 20, 2015 at 9:47 am)robvalue Wrote: Oh yeah. Religion is about control and subduing the masses, no question. But I think the wafer thin levels of religion still left in England show that it's no longer at all necessary for a society to function, if it ever was. Religion is much more like a dictatorship. And morally, I can't get behind that. But of course if someone can get away with it, they may not care about the morality, or have their own weird view about it.
In fairness, some people may well like being subdued and not having to think for themselves.
Most of us do. It's one of our most basic social instincts - submission to parent/leader. It would take hundreds of thousands years to make those instincts disappear and it's very likely that we couldn't form basic social groups - like families - without them. Just like if we bred dogs to be independent - it might prove impossible to continue the process, when the subjects became too disobedient and aggressive to coexist with us.
Sure, religion is not necessary (to say the least) for a civilized society to function and thrive. But we do still need the underlying psychological and social "mechanics".
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
