Reply #19: K&R [View All]

[DeSwiss]

Religion makes no sense. It never did. Anyone who has an open-mind and who has http://www.archive.org/stream/biblemythsandthe00doanuoft#page/n3/mode/2up">studied it can rationally confirm this. But then it was never intended to make sense -- only to give people "answers" -- when it could. But over time we've come to understand more and more that those answers are hardly ever applicable to our modern-day lives, and in fact are quite often antithetical to it.

Because one day we finally peeked behind the curtain, only to see a man. A small man really. A man pushing buttons and pulling levers, using his catch-phrases and verses and incantations -- with its rituals, bluster, theatrics and pyrotechnics. All in an effort to scare us and control us emotionally. But this technique is now on the wane. So religion has been forced to turn up the volume. It mostly just screams at us now. Because it still has only sophistry to offer us. More and more people have come to realize this and are turning away. So religion's volume is cranked up a little more.

But this is why religion evokes so much passion from people, because that is all it ever had to offer to begin with. Religion was always a place of succor to assuage our fears and to nurture our hopes. Fears and hopes that we've since learned are ruled by the laws of nature and our own decisions and choices. And not the rules, the punishments or the favors coming from tyrannical gods.