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Originally Posted by SMadsen
The idea that humans don't have any use for religious fairy tales in the modern world is apparantly more ridiculous since, well, there exists an immense number of people who are devout to them. You assume that the purpose of religion is to explain things like germs and atoms in absence of knowledge of things like germs and atoms. That's not such a sound assumption.
By the way, when the Bible was written the world was also modern. The world is always modern in whatever time as long as it's the present  |
Well excuse me for assuming that, but I think your position assumes that the majority of devout religious people don't believe ancient religious fairy tales literally, that's also a bad assumption. Just because people believe in that garbage doesn't mean doing so is more useful than other things they could be doing with their time. Being devout to them has nothing to do with the fact that the texts themselves are virtually useless and have been replaced with more modern forms of philosophy, science, etc... It's like being devout to beta, when Blue Ray DVD exists; not so smart...
The idea that whatever time the present is at is "modern" is also ridiculous. That means the beginning of the stone age was just as "modern" as the year 2000. Faulty logic.