(May 2, 2015 at 4:29 am)Twisted Wrote: If you read history then so many people have sacrificed their life for religion or a religious cause,so many people have dedicated their life for religious purposes,there have been so many mystics in every religion who were good people,so much deep stuff written about religion and God,why did they never ask the basic question that does God exist or not and were all those religious people and mystics frauds?
The reason is evolutionary. When we are born for the most part we as a species simply swallow what our parents sell us. Religion is an unfortunate outcome of our species flawed perceptions. Religion has the real benefit of creating groups and safety, but unfortunately that gap filling, the dark side of our evolution, causes groups to be pitted against each other.
The good side of our species is proven by western secular common law that while you cannot completely force religion out of existence, you can get those who follow it to water it down to a civil level. It always takes progressives to drag religion kicking and screaming into modern civility.
