RE: Why does religion continue to grow?
June 10, 2015 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2015 at 5:19 pm by Crossless2.0.
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(June 10, 2015 at 4:33 pm)SteveII Wrote: I'm interested to hear your theories of why by 2050, contrary to 300 years of predictions, almost 3,000,000,000 Christians will be sitting in pews around the world praying for the salvation of your grand kids.
. . . and predicting that Jesus will return any time now, and still offering the same poor arguments in favor of their faith as their grandparents did, and not one step closer to offering a shred of evidence that any god (let alone Yahweh) exists.
My 'theory'? Most, if not all, people embrace their religions for reasons that have nothing to do with evidence, rationality, or a good intellectual conscience and will spend a lifetime mind-fucking themselves rather than own up to it. There's no reason to believe that human nature will change in a few short decades, so people will continue to search for meaning, Daddy, eternal life, whatever and tenaciously defend whichever the 'answer' they find or were indoctrinated into, however idiotic it may be.
