Jaden wrote:
Brahm_K wrote:
But knowledge of his/her's/theirs existence is a matter of faith. Therefore, this topic, and all logical conversations about it, are completely fucking pointless.
Yet one must have made the decision to take on a faith in the first place. People are not born believing that Jesus Christ died for their sins. They made a decision at one point, and thus it still boils down to logic: why do they choose to have faith? Faith is not in itself good enough: some people have faith in a God that tells them to fly planes into towers, or tells them to conquer Jerusalem and slaughter millions of muslims -- or whatever. Faith is nothing more than an attempt to run away from logic, from reality. Faith is for the weak.
People are not born believing that Jesus Christ died for their sins. They are, however, indoctrinated from an early age. Obviously, this has a large impact upon someone's belief system, particularly those whose families are completely religious and who attend religious school. I'd think that the majority of people who are religious are so because of the way there were raised (and obviously, there are those who have mid life spiritual awakenings). Choosing faith over complete reason is not a matter of weakness; it is generally a matter of upbringing (there are also several new interesting theories that there is a gene that makes one more susceptible to spirituality). I am not religious or spiritual in the slightest, but there is, I think, a positive aspect to religion which you are ignoring completely.
And of course people kill themselves for greed (or at least get themselves killed); more importantly, people kill others for power, money, political ideologies, etc... Blaming all the worlds' problems on religion, as you seem to be doing, is bullshit.
