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Why do you assume the question implies I am upset?It makes no difference to me if you're an atheist, or agnostic.
Not sure why people get upset over Christians beliefs or any other religious beliefs.
I wasn't, I was referring to Synth's remark that Christianity is a mental disease.Why do you assume the question implies I am upset?
If libs think its bad with religion they (you) aint seen nothin yetGods and religions provide strength, comfort, guidance and answers. So man has maintained about 2,500 of them over time.
Unfortunately, a lot of bad comes from (a) organized religions and (b) people who pervert the religion to match their own agenda.
Religion ends up being warped and wrecked by politics, ego, hate, lust and greed. As we see on a pretty freakin' regular basis.
Yet "science" can't explain the origins of our physical existence except by telling our children "fairy tales" about a self creating universe that magically created itself from nothing. When you used the word science you forgot add the qualifier to the descriptive NEW.......... its spelled "PSEUDO".Cro-Magnon fathers had no better answer to children's questions ... "because I say so" works up to roughly the 18th Century, or say about 8-years-old ...
Science is new ...
What some are calling "science" today is nothing but PHILOSOPHY (idea's existing only within the mind of men) dressed as science. Today, Theory, Conjecture, Speculation, Hypothesis, and Assumptions are presented as scientific truth when in reality these supposed truths/facts do not contain the observed, reproducible, consistent evidences derived by application of the laws of physics to be called LAWS of SCIENCE.
Why do people have a need to believe in gods?
So people who do not believe what you do are fools?
Why do people have a need to believe in gods?
I don;t deny that there might be godsPeople who deny God certainly are fools. That's pretty much the pinnacle of human folly.
Because Something does not come from Nothing
It's not a coincidence the universe popped into existence being hardwired to produce intelligence.This assumes the existence of an ultimate power.
The data overwhelmingly shows that man is a spiritual being. It is for good reason that David Foster Wallace said that we all worship something and the only choice in the matter is what we choose to worship. We are literally hardwired for it. Throughout history every society has overwhelmingly held the belief that man is more than just matter and that there is a higher power than man. When we look at the data today we see that more and more people are rejecting organized religion but have not abandoned their belief that they are more than just matter or that there is a force which connects or binds us all. From the atheist's vantage point these beliefs exist because of evolutionary forces. But the reality is that even that argument confirms that spirituality offers a functional advantage over materialism. According to natural selection there are two main components; functional advantage and transfer of functional advantage to the next generation. So even natural selection confirms that spirituality is a behavior which leads to success. Otherwise, according to natural selection, it would have been abandoned long ago. As mankind has gained more and more knowledge of his natural surroundings his desire for spirituality has not diminished. In fact, the more materialistic we became the less satisfied we became.Why do people have a need to believe in gods?
People who deny God certainly are fools. That's pretty much the pinnacle of human folly.
Fear of death, for the most part – humans are unique in that they’re aware of their own mortality; humans contrived religion, and latter gods, in an effort to assuage that fear, such as the notion of an ‘afterlife.’Why do people have a need to believe in gods?
That's an interesting philosophy you've presented ... you've left no room for falsification, so it's not science ...
Newton's Law of Gravity fits the bill here ... it's a theory, and conjecture, and speculation, and a hypothesis ... but moist important, it is an ASSUMPTION ... let's look at our logical statement now: IF (Newton's Gravity), THEN ( Rigid proof of Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion) ... this is useful in spite it being based on assumption ...
Not only CAN we falsify Newton's Gravity ... we actually have ... with Einstein's field equations ... but it's still good science ... very useful, but ... sadly ... the fact is gravity doesn't exist ... it's a pseudo-force ... strictly an artifact of our frame-of-reference ...
Does that make gravity any less useful? ... I asked a zoologist about it, she bitch-slapped me ... so that's a no ...