Enlighten Yourselves

[pocaracas]

Girl, hide that wall of text!!
Oh, sorry... not a girl... why do I have that stuck in my head?

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This is the main problem with it...
The people who wrote it, had no knowledge of any god.... they had no foresight, no insight, nothing tangible... they believed.
Like people believe nowadays, so did they believe back then.

Unless, they knew it was a con...

wow... I thought you'd gone...

I'll be nice, now... I'm in that mood...

Let's see how it went.... first, you said:

my bold.

To which I replied, agreeing with you:


And you replied with



Why the hostility?... I was agreeing with you!!

However, I just kept with the speculation... you were enjoying it so much, I figured, what the heck?...



See? I'm still agreeing with your initial premise: they believed it.
And you went on analyzing the very real human psychology of today:



And I gave you some perspective on the same human psychology of old:


And then, you accused me of


To which I gave you even more questions


If my attempt at explaining the religious devotion we see today and see recorded in historic records is ad hoc and, hence, likely false, then those first questions must arise. Assuming that one religion is portraying reality, then whence cometh the other religions?


This is when your delicate brain failed you terribly...



Accusations to distract from the heart of the matter... almost as if you missed my previous point...
It was also when I explained further



I gave you more psychology...
And what did you do?



Ask me where psychology comes from...
And I gave you a few psychology sources, thinking it would be enough...



but nooooo.... Just couldn't use that noggin... So I just gave up and went the easy way of insult.

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I certainly admire the effort. Here's where it went wrong to begin with:

This is the main problem with it...
The people who wrote it, had no knowledge of any god.... they had no foresight, no insight, nothing tangible... they believed. 
Like people believe nowadays, so did they believe back then.

Unless, they knew it was a con...

Your mistake: You have no basis for your claim that the people had no knowledge of any god.

That you made up.

I followed your lead...
You said they believed. If they believe, then they didn't know.
"I believe my wife is faithful to me.... however, I don't know it... she may not be, for all I know..."

Or are you going to tell me that knowledge is nothing more that "justified true belief" and, since knowledge is belief, then, when you said that they believed, it really meant that they knew and had a true justification for that knowledge?

Or, as I assume, did they have as much justification as people nowadays have?