TheProgressivePatriot
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No one want's to abolish Christianity. To suggest that is just an expression of some paranoid bullshit. What many want is for Christianity to actually reflect and promote the actual values that Christ extoled instead of the politicized and controlling version of Christianity that is promoted by Republicans and the Evangelicals today.Would you like to abolish Christianity? It's ok to say yes. Don't be afraid.Well, to some degree, religions are cons, however, the original purpose came about as bands of tribes would seek answers as to what happens to those that they love, when they die. The Shamans would come up with an answer that would soothe them. Claiming an afterlife and not having to show proof helps.Many people need the belief in a super-natural being to comfort them in the belief that there is no utter end to their existence.
Thanks for the well thought out reply.
I cannot agree that people need delusions to get through life. Sure, we all lie to ourselves on smaller issues, but to lie to ones self on a major mental issue, is insanity, which is why organized religions are taught in universities to be collective schizophrenia.
Science recognizes what religions are, cons, yet people do not get it, or ignore reality for the tribalism and fellowship.
Regards
DL
Then of course, there were behavioral issues that needed to be sorted out and in antiquity, before governmental laws, there were tribal laws. As standup comedian, once said, "they had to draft something to get the men to stop humping camels." And also, stop stealing from others and killing for something they wanted.
I think you are underestimating how scary and unknown the world was to our ancestors. It was not just the afterlife that was a mystery to them, but much of the natural world too.
What was the sun? What was the Moon? What was lightening? When was it going to rain? How bad is the winter going to be? Why is there no food? Why did that baby just die?
If there was a tribe or group that just decided to accept that they had no idea what was going on, and to just accept the terror and complete lack of control that came with that,
they died out and were replaced by groups with better coping mechanisms.
Like inquisitions and jihads?
Regards
DL