I liked the following paragraph from one of the email groups.
> > A
> > person doesn’t consciously ‘make up’ a god, the idea of god fulfills a
> > need. Take for example when a cherished loved on dies. The thought
> > of them being ‘gone’ and never being able to have that company again
> > is more than a person can handle so they deny death as permanent
> > because it is easier to accept the grief if there is the possibility
> > of seeing them again (in heaven).
> > People don’t make up god to get a fix, it isn’t like a shot of hereon,
> > it is something that has evolved like everything else.
> > I’m not quite sure I follow the rest of your babble but if you can’t
> > live without religion there is absolutely nothing anyone can say that
> > will change your mind, no body of evidence will ever be enough.
>
> What I said was hardly phrased into nobel prize winning literature but
> the basic point was clear enough. You started with some science but
> almost immediately moved on to different ground that the science did
> not establish. If there was no god I would live without religion no
> problem: so your ‘if’ does not apply.
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This post was written by techhair on June 1, 2008
