Because superstition is better than science at uniting a group to pursue a common goal, and encouraging altruistic behavior. Most people are not capable of handling the cold hard truth of reality.
Mormons, despite the silliness of their beliefs, are far more reproductively successful as a group than Dawkins-style atheists.
I guess I can sum up my view by saying God isn't real, but we evolved to believe in him for a reason, and objectivity/too much intelligence in many cases can be a maladaptive adaptation.
When I have four to the royal I always pray to God. And when the stick man changes at the craps table and there's a seven-out I always mutter go to hell.
Hopefully you stick around...I don’t know who this MrV is running around demanding proof from everyone anyway...he did the same to Singer..”I’ll give you til 6PM to provide proof”...who appointed him truth and justice administrator for this forum?...I mean I dont see people running around demanding proof from him that he likes wearing women’s underwear or likes reading Ebony Stud magazine
Religion does have a benefit.....even if there is no proof of god...and that is that it keeps a certain sector of people on the straight and narrow and perhaps keeps some people from crossing the line into antisocial behavior.
It may keep people from going over the edge....from going insane.
For example the mother who losses a child.......being able to convince herself that its gods plan, and the child is with god etc....will help her mental health. Jeep her from deteriorating mentally, allows her to be productive and compartmentalize the pain.
For anyone who endures a hardship......if they are religious, they will probably endure it better than I could. And that is a big deal. I dont begrudge the mom or dad of a soldier that died in a war the ability to make it more bearable through leaning on a perceived god.
Or someone who lost all their possessions in a hurricane, falling into "faith" to help them cope with the pain. anger, helplessness .
Again, they would get through something like that mentally better than I could.
So in that respect I envy the people who actually believe in their particular perceived god and can get through hardships easier with that belief.
whether they believe in a god, or in an alien spacecraft that rules the universe.......it doesnt matter....they do get something real and of substance from something that doesnt exist. What is bad about that.
Its only when people like MC start telling us that their particular god, or alien space ship is "the one" and that we are destined to hell if we dont believe in their worldly ruler that the belief turns from comforting people...to making them feel superior to others.
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Evolution is a fact of science. That being said, it's probably a fact that should never have been taught to the masses, as it's better to have the masses believe there is something watching them that will reward and punish them even if there is no earthly force watching them, to keep them inclined to behave in ways that benefit the tribe at the expense of oneself rather than vice versa.
Fossil record. The fact evolution has been actively observed in cases such as the peppered moth. Pretty much the entirety of the science of Biology.
There are no intermediary stages visible in the evolutionary cycle- that and reverse evolution examples such as the bombardier beetle which shows they would have destroyed themselves in normal evolutionary stages. Nevertheless, a horde of truths cannot sway some..
When Galileo demonstrated two unequal weighted objects dropping at the same time, there were scoffers- even today arguing about the experiment must be in a vacuum.
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What, Me Worry?
Wow, somebody put on their big boy pants today..first cussing out Micky and now dropping the F bomb on me..I’m impressed. A far cry from your usual slithering cunt-like ways. Back to the topic tho. “Fuck Jesus?” Really?...if he doesn’t exist, which he may not, why all the hostility?...Did he try and hit on your wife?..kick your dog?..Sell you a bad batch of weed?...I’m pretty sure Mickey or anyone else can believe in whatever they want, just like you can...But whether you’re an atheist, believe in Buddha, or in your case, an atheist with a Buddha belly, that sort of comment just confirms what a dickhead you are, as if anyone needed any reminder.....Get it numbnuts?
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