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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
October 21, 2015 at 9:19 pm
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Belief in god is an emotional void filler and an inability to accept death as your life's conclusion.
Religion is simply a reaffirmation of this belief from peers. Organized Religion isn't an indoctrination into God, it's an indoctrination into the fear of arguing against people who share your same belief - resulting in a belief in god because of lack in individual thinking and a misguided indoctrinated virtue of "accepting" what people tell you is true, as the truth complimented with an ingrained fear of exploring opposition based on the organized religious values you were coaxed into from people with the same common misguided fear.
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
October 21, 2015 at 10:18 pm
Thank you for expressing your opinion. I respectfully disagree since I know many religious people that do not match your descriptions.
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
October 22, 2015 at 1:59 pm
(October 20, 2015 at 4:32 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: For a few, it's mental torture. The whole I'm not now nor will every be worthy. Yet they continue to believe. This one I don't understand.
Does Stockholm ring a bell?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
October 22, 2015 at 2:18 pm
(October 20, 2015 at 5:13 pm)Thena323 Wrote: The human desire to circumvent death is the driving force behind religious belief...it always has been and always will be. The notion that we simply rot into non-existence is a hell of a pill to swallow; too disturbing and depressing for many people to even consider, let alone accept.
So if you don't like the end of the story, why not rewrite the ending to one that suits you and makes you feel better?
People do it all the time.
Of course, that ain't the way the story really goes, but hey...
"If it makes you happy
It can't be that baaa..aa..aa..ad."
-Sheryl Crow
But once you swallow that red pill, the blue pill loses its effect.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
October 25, 2015 at 8:18 pm
Because humans want to live past their sell by date.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
