Originally Posted by latinasojourn

on earth, religious faith is a cultural artifact.

you believe what you do because of two things:

WHEN and WHERE you were born in this world.

man has walked upright for a very long time. on the human time line the modern "information age" era that contemplates "evolution" is very short.

as an analogy, if the human timeline were 1000 meters, the discussion of evolution would be right out at the end of the timeline, maybe in the 1 milimeter area.

in the 1400's the ancestral catholic church wanted to burn copernicus at the stake because he dared say the earth was not flat. i was shooting in thailand a few years ago, and the bargirls in the room did not want me to kill the spider crawling in the corner because they thought it was one of their ancestors who had not done good works in his life, and these girls were serious.

crazy silly shit.

in 2007 if you don't believe religious faith is silly yet, then get on a jet and fly 10,000 miles to bangkok, or calcutta, and visit the temples, listen to the people worshipping cows and buddha, then get back in the airplane and fly to tulsa oklahoma and go see oral roberts, or go to west virginia and listen to jerry falwell, or watch benny hinn cure people with cancer.

listen to the camel jockeys praising their god as they fly a hijacked jetliner into the world trade center to kill "infidels".

it's all mindless nonsense. superstition, voodoo shit. religion is for people that are afraid to walk alone on a dark night.

science is not perfect. but it is based on the concept of observation, and proven, repeatable results.

religion is created to reduce human stress, take the fear out of dying. it is mother goose stories for adults.

morality and religion are two different concepts.

about the best we can do is to be a good person, pet a dog, be kind to a child, be a good friend, love your family, do something for someone.

then die in peace.