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- TheBlueOne0
"We invented God so we could explain not yet understood scientific phenomena."
I think this is partially true, but I think there is something deep inside the brain that makes such religious instincts natural part of the human experience. It is not simply about "explanation" of phenomena. Perhaps it's tied into something with primates and the need for hierarchy in our social structure. Who knows. But I think the religious impulse is an honest, natural one in humans, although I agree with your larger point that it can be used for nefarious purposes.
I tend to think that the three big religions all have a shade of the truth - that Christianity teaches that our social role and our relationship to god should not be related; Buddhism teaches that we are not what our illusions about ourself tell us we are; and that Islam teaches that sometimes surrender to a greater power is the only logical response a finite human can have in an infinite universe.
These are not bad realizations. What people do to believe in them to the exclusion of all other things is sad.
The need to believe is what kills, not god. The quest for certainty.
Science has no quest for certainty, as much as those who so vigorsly defend their faiths would like to believe. Science has a whole different set of dangers.
- there are distinct differences in the organization and practice; this thread isnt about faith.plash
- Sorry, without 'faith', (belief without evidence), there is no god, no religion.mikotondria3
- Well look here at the thread cop.TheBlueOne