dsgrue3 said:
richardhutnik said:
Following a sports team is very much a religious experience. The way it manifests itself involves rituals and so on. There is irrational reverence for things, based mainly in the emotional area. Following sports is very much a religious experience, and it can be argued that sports serves the roll that nationalism and religious fellowship belonged to. It is a similar thing, showing the complete and irrational fanboyism you see towards consoles. This religious impulse doesn't have to do with salvation or eternity either. But it fills a similar need that religious fellowship does.
And my bomb reference was to Boston and how that united a city. I don't see atheists forming community at all. They just don't. There is nothing positive there at all to be able to unite people on things. Atheism is a negation. What ends up taking its place is individualism and personal preferences that would unite people and form community. Communities don't consist of groups of people doing their own thing. You see what happened to Occupy after they lost the parks, as an example. Humans without a positive belief will only come together when facing a tragedy.
And your last comment is an interesting snotty shot at things. The reality is that, because people don't have answers to these great questions, it is was said to show that they wouldn't even be able to answer questions about there being a God or gods. Like, exactly how could one tell if there is a God or not? Seriously doubt you could answer this.
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Does the sports team exist? Yes.
Does god exist (let alone the other specific events/doctrines/etc)? No one knows.
They are completely unrelated. Does sports fanhood promote insanity on the same order as religion? Certainly. You see that on this forum even with console fanhood.
You say the bombing united the city, not just the religious people and then proceeded to compare it solely to religion. Tragedy unites everyone in the community, regardless of religion/belief/morals etc.
No, my last comment was to not make assumptions. Assuming "what is the purpose of life" is a theological question is entirely absurd.
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What part of: COGNITIVE PROCESSES OF HUMAN BEINGS AT THIS TIME IS INSUFFICIENT TO RATIONALLY ANSWER WHETHER OR NOT GOD EXISTS do you not grasp in what I have said? Apparently your inabiliity to address this question shows clearly of an ability to do so.
The reality is this: Until people can actually come up with ways of determining with degrees of certainty what God is, and how to tell if God exists, then they aren't going to be able to do so, in a way that doesn't make the answer subjective and merely a sophist philosophical persuasion trick.
There is a reality though that you do see some positive community building for religious reasons, and demands it makes, that are absent when you take God and/or religion out of the equation.
