(July 13, 2016 at 8:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If ideas are stored, in our brain..then they're -also- material. In any case, it's ludicrous to speak of religion as though it were without material influence. You won't be able to provide an explanation for why people pray to raingod, and when...without referencing them.
Just because something is (must?) be represented by a physical mechanism doesn't make it physical. "2" isn't a thing, and really doesn't even need to be represented to be what it is. . . it really is just an abstract idea.
That being said. . . it should be obvious to anyone who thinks that religion must be founded in material influence-- I mean, if you never had any religious experiences-- no sense of communion with "something," no observation of a mysterious universe for which a weak mind would hypothesize a Creator God, then how could religion have developed?
