Religion strikes me as the lazy, arrogant way to sounding like a deep thinker

[Jay GW]

"I have read one book in my life, therefore I know everything."

If you asked the average person if they believed that, they most likely would deny they did. However, isn't it the very idea that religion promotes? Each claims to have a central text(s) that explain the beginning, end and middle of the universe's realities. It strikes me as being incredibly lazy and arrogant to think everything is contained within one text like the Koran or Bible.

Even more dangerous, it promotes a way of thinking that can lead to severe problems.

[general_koffi]

Maybe, but I doubt its religion's major pull factor.

The whole fear of death thing, need for fraternity, and the fact that their parents taught them it since the age of 0 probably has more influence on faith.

[WishboneDawn]

Oh I agree! The facts that I hate the effort of thinking and am scared shitless of my mortality are my two main reasons for being religious. Christian rap is the third but I'm usually too embarrassed to admit that.
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[steamer]

Oh I agree! The facts that I hate the effort of thinking and am scared shitless of my mortality are my two main reasons for being religious.

Are you frightened of your own mortality?

[WishboneDawn]

Are you frightened of your own mortality?

Actually, not really. I have my moments but not too often. That may well change as I get older or experience different things, but not at the moment. And I don't find the idea of heaven any more comforting then death being the end of me and my body returning to the soil. Again, in the future though, who knows, eh? I'm young and cocky right now.

I have to make sure I add smilies to my sarcastic posts. There should be a mooning smiley. :moons: :shows butt: :shows naked butt:

Damn. Doesn't work.

[Hamlet]

thats like saying its incredibly lazy to think that everthing might be contained in one theory e.g. string theory. i have no business talking about advanced physics, but its just an analogy.

[Jay GW]

thats like saying its incredibly lazy to think that everthing might be contained in one theory e.g. string theory.

And anyone that states that would be just as lazy.

[chasborne]

I think that religion, in whatever form it takes, admits that there are things that the human mind can not conceive and therefore devises "mythos" to explain this sacred and profane explanation of the world they experience. It is more intellectually honest, in my opinion, than pretending incomplete answers are sufficient explanations. For example, The Big Bang Theory, which even The Vatican accepts as more than theory and likewise, evolution, are incomplete in that they ignore the obvious genesis and and not so obvious terminus of those processes. Explaining what is going on is a huge step from explaining how they started or where they are headed. Religion attempts to explain these ideas in increasingly more complicated and "scientific" ways as our knowledge and experience increase.