Perhaps need a thread The Travels of jc and connect the dots
For a couple of atheists we seem to study him a lot.
What I would like to do is explore why humans have the need for superstition in this era.
I mean you can understand in the past where ignorance was the only option when folk needed an explaination of say why people got sick or other mysteries ...but now when so many things have reasonable and deeply researched answers they turn to a book explaining stuff from the perspective of a bronze age agricultural society.
I mean they had such crazy ideas and for some they seem like they are still living in the bronze age.
What is in a theists brain that is not in mine.
I recall Jan citing "research" that children had a propensity to believe in God.
I questioned it mainly because the researcher was a full blown christian but clearly some just accept the crazy notion...well to me its in the same boat as believing in spirits and tarot cards.
No facts simply nothing to suggest there is anything at all...and its so circular..the bible has the answer..no..but its in the bible...there is your proof..but there is nothing to suggest it is correct...how dare you question my faith..
And some folk are clearly very inteligent but then on the subject of religion their brain hangs up the "out to lunch sign".
Intetestingly the most angry athiests I have met are mates who both were raised in catholic house holds...you think I go off..each of these guys are ready to burn down churches when the subject comes up..yet the point is they worked out they were being conned and rejected their drummed in teaching.
I just wonder why some just seem incapable of thinking things thru and coming up with the obvious flaws with the idea of a God who would see us as special or communicate with us...even if there is one...which there is not...in my view.
And this belief that there is a life after their current life...do they think they are butterflys or something..
.and all these stories are unevidenced unsupported and comes from folk in the bronze age.
What would they know?
I like astronomy science and mechanics and need to know how things work yet there are folk who if told something they will accept it without question.
The times I have goggled why folk are prone to religion I cant recall but I always get side tracked and have yet to read what researchers have found out...
I was trying to have a conversation with a christian, (and the date was 2/2/2018 I recalled the date because it was a birthday party) and I sort explain the size of the observable universe after showing her a photo of the Milky Way because she thought it was big...and rather than seek more information or say anything sensible says..Oh the size of God's creation is enormous...
What do you say...cant you think about anything without bringing God into it....you can guess what words went thru my mind...
Things just are..things just are... so do you think it will rain later.
Alex