(June 18, 2021 at 12:17 am)Brian37 Wrote:(June 17, 2021 at 11:40 pm)Ranjr Wrote: Thor was the just story we told children to help them sleep on stormy nights. We didn't expect adults to take it seriously. Similarly with Jesus. We were trying to make the kids stop hitting each other. Who could predict that "turn the other cheek" and "do as you would be done by" would turn into fight club?
^^^^^^^ This.
Here, Ranjr has invented an origin myth to explain where religion comes from. There is no way to prove it's true. Ethnologists and anthropologists have various theories.
But since it sounds good to you, you've decided to go ahead and believe this unprovable just-so story.
You are doing what you say religious people do.
