| richardhutnik said: The existence of God as a concept in and of itself, is pretty useless. But the, if you get into details, where it matters, so much depends upon context of specific of religion that, if you are an outside, isn't really something you can dive into. Actually debating the existence of anything is fairly pointless, because having something exist doesn't explain WHAT the prior reaction is supposed to be to the existence. |
I find that people's religious beliefs aren't remotely about what they believe to be true. That's why you can't argue them on that point. It's about social pressure from a young age, the need to belong to a group, or emotional protection from the concepts of death, or free morality, or the questions of our own existence. The best thing we can do regardless of the truth of religion is increased focus on education, so that people can think for themselves and escape the need to conform if they want to.
