Science has no more answers than religion. Science only ever knows what science knows at a point in time. Science doesn't create (it can't create something that 'the rules' doesn't allow it to create - it doesn't make the 'laws'), it just documents the laws it finds. Irrespective of which philosophical method you subscribe to you always end up with '...but what happened before that...' ie the if G_d created the universe who created G-d issue. And as with any power, science gets misused and abused as much as religion or politics or....
@NorthernJoe - religion, from the first "medicine man" to the "prophets" and everything since in any format or creed, is always about controlling and ordering people and society.
Historically, it's the biggest con in the world - RC church is a perfect pyramid scam - and perpetrated by a select few to concentrate money and power to their benefit whilst convincing the masses they need to follow or risk eternal hell in one form or another.
What astonishes me is that, despite literacy, the availability of info and enlightenment in books, on TV, film, the internet and so on, people are still falling for it with new converts as well as continuing adherence by people born or brought up in it.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Maybe it's genetic. Some people have a need for religion and some don't. Some need to believe in life after death and some don't. Some hope there is some hope there isn't.I I remember reading about missionaries visiting tribes with had no concept of property or ownership. Hard to 'save' someone who does not steal or covet and thinks lust is quite normal.
Religiosity is a psychological phenomenon - all aspects of it have a psychological explanation. Belief in life after death, disembodied minds, rules of behaviour, rituals, the priesthood, worship and faith can all be explained by psychologists.
Religion is the most evil form of brainwashing and control ever devised by man. If you indoctrinate a child from Day 1 about Gods, Prophets or whatever, with no alternative offered,and this is enforced by teachers, priests ( rabbis, imans or whatever ) and even the State: that , to me is Brainwashing. Don't even start me on the genital mutilation of boys and girls in the name of religion. Total barbarism.
Some very interesting posts on here. I had a book called "are we hardwired to believe in God" obviously some people are. If Adam and Eve only had the 2 sons, where did everyone else come from?
Some very interesting posts on here. I had a book called "are we hardwired to believe in God" obviously some people are. If Adam and Eve only had the 2 sons, where did everyone else come from?
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Historically, it's the biggest con in the world - RC church is a perfect pyramid scam - and perpetrated by a select few to concentrate money and power to their benefit whilst convincing the masses they need to follow or risk eternal hell in one form or another.
What astonishes me is that, despite literacy, the availability of info and enlightenment in books, on TV, film, the internet and so on, people are still falling for it with new converts as well as continuing adherence by people born or brought up in it.
I remember reading about missionaries visiting tribes with had no concept of property or ownership. Hard to 'save' someone who does not steal or covet and thinks lust is quite normal.
If you indoctrinate a child from Day 1 about Gods, Prophets or whatever, with no alternative offered,and this is enforced by teachers, priests ( rabbis, imans or whatever ) and even the State: that , to me is Brainwashing.
Don't even start me on the genital mutilation of boys and girls in the name of religion. Total barbarism.
Christians were very good at that in the past.