Elder Spawn
Every culture, aside from hedonistic ones in their deaththroes, (like this culture, or the Greco-Romans), have belief in some greater beings. So unless humanity's culture is genetic, than how would you explain how all cultures have some sort of religion?
I realy hate this argument. For one thing, while monotheistic societies in the now ARE in the majority, they are far from the only game in town. Many branches of Buddhism, for example, don't believe in any sort of deity. Furthermore, if you are going to use the "most people believe(d) in X. Therefore X must be true!" argument you'd have to swing more towards a pantheistic system. For most of known history man has believed in MANY gods, with MANY widely varrying creation stories. If god/creation was engrained in the mind then wouldn't all cultures have come to a "one god" conclusion? Instead most have come to the "many gods" conclusion including the messopotamians, myans, norsemen, celts, greeks, shintos, some branches of buddhism, egyptians, hindus, babelonians, and MOST African tribes through this day.
So if majority belief is proof of truth, then pantheism must be true now shouldn't it? See how flakey this idea is?
And where is this gene located on DNA anyways? How has it survived natural selection and what is it's selection benifit that keeps it in the gene pool? What does it even DO specifically? No one has ever proven this to be the case.
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Yeah except we point to creation as evidence of our beliefs, we point our miracles and other sort of events. The thing is, evidence can be viewed from different perspectives and disbelieved for it. Even if someone had "concrete" evidence of the existance of dieties, someone else would claim its not proof of it. Thats why no one tries to proof it. They just believe it.
What "evidence"? Last I checked the creation theory of the big bang was the one supported by the facts along with evolution and abiogenisis as explanations of the origins of life. How the hell is that evidence?
Is there a place we can look in the sky and find god?
Most "proof" I have seen has been painfully inadequit. Statues crying blood and cheese sandwiches with the face of the virgin marry are not proof. For proof you need something objective that can be repeatably tested in a reliable way. So no, you CAN'T prove god. That's why it's called faith. Stop pretending otherwise!
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You can't prove that killing is wrong. Or right. So why do we make laws against it? Because we believe its wrong. Proof of anything isn't the point. Its the belief in something. We all believe slavery is wrong. And thus its outlawed. Can you prove slavery is wrong? Or killing? There's no concrete evidence saying its right or wrong. Proving anything is not my point. My point is -in my opinion, because this whole place is about opinions, and communicating opinions (and beliefs, even anti-beliefs), I am going to express my belief- people who deny all existance of dieties are mentally incompetent.
Actually, if you'd ever bothered to read philosophy or look at lawmaking you can see that it's VERY easy to make moral judgements without a holy text. You look at the consequences and make the decission that will make the most people hapy for the longest time. Jailing murderers is just good sense as leaving them loose puts the population as a whole at risk. Can we ever be 100% sure that a law is perfect? No. But we can be 80 or 90% sure. And then we can take surveys of the consequences and change the laws as needed. Something impossible to do with religious docterine.
See? Morality without religion!
And if you'll look to Afganistan you'll see that the people that DO use holy texts as law about to execute one of your fellow christians for simply changing faiths to christianity.
Funny, If the country was secular they could actually DEBATE the law...
Odd how that works out isn't it?
