(June 24, 2015 at 12:52 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(June 24, 2015 at 11:26 am)Brian37 Wrote: Still missing my point. Religion IS the cause of racism, because it is the ignorance of reality in that our grouping is evolutionary, not comic book in nature. You can demonstrate evolutionary rivalry quite naturally without religion. Take random people that don't know each other, get two teams together to play a game or sport, automatically the group cooperates as a team to win the game/sport. That is a simulation of gaining resources/ the points, the win, represent survival. Religion is a result of human's false perceptions that turn our natural behavior into a comic book.
I don't know what you mean by turning our natural behaviour into a comic book but I doubt It will change the fact that people can be racist with or without religion and that slavery exists in places where no Abrahamic god was heard of.
Certainly you understand what I mean by taking our natural behavior and turning it into a comic book. Just like you know Santa is really your parents. It takes the idea of giving and turns it into a comic book claim. It turns authority "Naughty or nice" into a comic book claim.
Giving is an act of empathy not magic. Regulating like a parent while varying in attitudes from family to family are also attempts to create social order and cooperation. Santa is a child like concept of our natural behavior, and the same can be said for religion. It takes our behaviors and makes comic book justifications for them, good or bad. Santa and religion distort reality, but only one is viewed as fact when both are fiction.
