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Originally Posted by Pubic Wig
Do i believe that a carpenter son born some 2000 years ago to an alleged virgin was both the Son and the physical mmanifestation of God. Yes i do.
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But why?
Dawkins makes the very interesting point in 'The God Delusion' that belief in religion is just an evolved impulse gone wrong.
He argues that we have evolved to believe what we are told as infants by our parents (the child that doesn't listen to 'don't walk off that cliff' doesn't live to have offspring and rules itself out of 'survival of the fittest'). If our parents tell us religion is true it is our evolved instinct to believe them....no matter how insane what they are telling us is.
It only takes two or three generation of a story being passed on as fact to children for that story to become 'true'.
It's like a moth flying around a lightbulb - the evolved response to light and its use for navigation isn't in itself flawed. It's just that light sources that aren't at infinite focal depth (ie. Sun, stars, moon) are a relatively recent thing in the evolutionary lifespan of the moth. The evolved method is perfectly good, but it's being caused to misfire by outside forces.
Same thing (IMO) with the pernicious nature of religion.