Where would the world be right now if religion never existed?

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sapphi_snake said:

The case with Anneliese Michale was diffrent. She refused to drink Holy Water even thogh she was catholic and when she passed by the icon of Jesus Christ she was getting upset. Not to mention she eat her own arm...

I've searched information about that case and it didn't say anywhere that she ate her own arm (though of she did it might have been 'cause she was hungry and desperate, after all they did starve her to death and didn't give her water), Also psychiatrists said that she suffered from induced psychisis (she attributed her illeness to demon possession and those priests were spewing nonsense and influencing her).

 

It clearly says that she HERSELF REFUSED TO EAT.  And tell me, why was she seeing demons everytime she was praying? And why couldnt she stand the holy water? And why did the icon of Jesus upset her so much?

well than, theres absolutly no need for me to continiue this discussion, is it? I can  see you that have total lack of faith for anything that science doesnt agree with. Did you know that 300 years ago, the smartes people of this world thought the Earht was flat and not round? Science has been wrong multiple times already, and  their theories are not always right.

The fact that the world is sphere-shaped was known since the Egyptians (recent actually show that the Earth is an elipsoid, but this was impossible to find out without footage from space). Those smart people that you talk about also answered to the Church. If the power'hungry Church hadn't gotten in everyone's business maybe scientists wouldn't have been so afriad to say something contrary to Church teachings and be labled heretics.

The Flat-Earth was just one of the examples. How about the time when people scinectis thought that atom was the smallest unit of matter on eath until they broke it and found lots of smaller parts in it (electron, patron and neutron)????

Plus I said I beleive that everything that exists is natural and that supernatural things don't exist If Big Foot or the Chubacapra exist, then they're just some rare animals, not supernatural beings. If ghosts really do exist then they're perfectly natural too. I've never seen a ghost, nor has it ever been proven that ghosts exist.

The term supernatural or supranatural (Latin: super, supra "above" natura "nature") pertains to being above or beyond what one holds to be natural. In the case of one who has strong scientific and atheist beliefs, the supernatural is anything unexplainable by natural law or phenomena.   And Chubacapara is nothing supernatural. Its some rare animal. A ghost, for an example is supernatural, because science cant explain it.  Such beliefs have existed in many( if not all) cultures throughout human history, and no science can reject that. Are you saying that all our human civilizations and culutres wre dumb and ignorannt, just because there is no phiysical or visual evidence of anything supernatural??? Well guess what, thre is no physicall or visual evidence of a huan thought either, that doesnt mean its not real. But like i said, you have a total lack of faith, so me here trying to prove you  that supernatural (or paranormal) things are real is a waste of time. I dont know why i replayed to your post in the first place, ic guess i was bored, lol.

People often experience things they can't explain. Lots of people give supernatural made-up explanations instead of thinking logically (like that German girl that thought she was possessed). Have you ever seen an episode of Grey's Anatomy, or of House? Those shows often feature people that have unexplained conditions. It turns out that thorough research is required to find out what they have, and often they have very rare conditions that doctors don;t even think about. There was a Grey's Anatomy episode guest starring Demi Lovato last season that had a similar case (I beleive it was called Shiny Happy People). Doctors and sicetists don't know everything. They don't have the necessary technology to know everyuthing. There's still a lot to be discovered in medicine and science, and the great thing about these fields is that there's always room for improvement and change, unlike blindly dogmatic fields based on supernatural and irational beliefs and wastefull interpretations of amiguous written texts. The mistake is to assume that they know everything, and if they don't they should be discredited.