(May 8, 2015 at 11:47 pm)whateverist Wrote: Yeah, if religion wasn't a recognized social construct it would seem very strange for someone to claim a guy in the sky was talking in his head who had the power of life, death, and eternal reward or punishment.
As Sam Harris wrote in Letter To A Christian Nation, "The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
