Spa-get out of here!

[lightgigantic]

I had been taught that the purpose of religion was to explain that which we didn't understand.

I have been taught that the purpose of religion is to understand god

Rather than leave a tribe with a pile of "I don't knows", the being who would become the holy man or holy woman would try to assuage the fear of the unknown with a spiritual answer.

bluffing, despite its popularity in a variety of fields of knowledge, tends to not win out

Try to explain to the very primitive mind what makes a volcano erupt if you don't know yourself.

By primitive mind do you mean your average New Yorker?

If you told the people that it was an angry fire god living deep beneath the earth, well, it fit and it gave an answer.

do you ever wonder why there are many irregularities in views held of ancient civilization?
Could it be that they were civilized even though they didn't have mobile phones?
In other words it raises the question on how do you qualify someone as civilized - if a dog is running on four legs, and if we are doing the exact same business on four wheels, are we more civilized?

Therefore, religion is based in misunderstanding and placebo answers. I believe it still fosters those things.[/QUOTE]
the foundation of your view hinges quite heavily on a certain view of history and civilization

 

[Godless]

only if you assume that there is no essential distinction between a fool and a saintly person

I think that they are one and the same LG!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWXDixJQ3WI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL2CWtfa71k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMhCDKxPjHU

First of all how would I go about qualifying a saintly person?
Are these saintly people LG?

This one really qualifies for saintly LG!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCODIhAXbQM

Perhaps him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCRUucI1zk&mode=related&search=