Guest guest Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 : > > .......the predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that scientific humanism and learning will dispel religious belief. Men would rather believe than know (…) A kind of Darwinistic survival of the fittest has occurred with religions (…) The ecological principle called Gause's law holds that competition is maximal between species with identical needs (…) Even submission to secular religions such as Communism and guru cults involve willing subordination of the individual to the group. Religious practices confer biological advantage. The mechanisms of religion include (1) objectification (the reduction of reality to images and definitions that are easily understood and cannot be refuted), (2) commitment through faith (a kind of tribalism enacted through self-surrender), (3) and myth (the narratives that explain the tribe's favored position on the earth, often incorporating supernatural forces struggling for control, apocalypse, and millennium). The three great religion categories of today are Marxism, traditional religion, and scientific materialism. Though theology is not likely to survive as an independent intellectual discipline, religion will endure for a long time to come and will not be replaced by scientific materialism. > > ....wikipedia > > Ricardo Namaste R, I think your semantics could be different....substitute superstition and spirit belief for religion and you have the condition of humans prior to c2000 years ago and since. People will always have superstition but organised religion is a new phenonemon...mainly Buddhist, Sikh, Christian, Muslim, and Judaism. These are all started by men and manipulators and they have no real relevance and are unnecessary...impediments and delusional. At least superstition refers to spirits and interdimensional beings instead of a non existant personal god...All within delusion anyway....Cheers Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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