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How many generations should people have to maintain the charade of pretending to believe in a god simply because it's a social norm?
well, i can easily counter and ask you waht makes the think that this "belief" is a charaade and that people (
whether out of delusion or not)really DO believe in a god and it Does effect their lives.
I've realized taht alot of the things that we morally take for granted are here because of those very relgious scruples passed down to us from our ancestors.
Think about our views about voting, womens rights, abolition, child labour, prostitution, death, desaese, welfare for the poor, care for the old and sick, helping your neighbor, the rulers actually caring waht the poor think......Why do we care about these things? Why should we give a ****?
All these things did take awhile to come about, but I feel that without a unifying set of morals that the Religion provided, then we wouldnt be as "civilized" as we are today.
Wahtever the purpose and motives of the religious figure heads, whether by fear or greed, it still kept the people in line enough to question their deeds and their self worth and right and wrong.
Granted, the fact that religion Is a neccesity for some peoples to rationalize their lives in one way or another is jsut another display of mans unoriginality, however it does server as a glue to keep things together... for good or ill.
Ideally, everyone would be intuitive enough to see the Pattern themselves and learn to personally observe their place in the harmony of things.... but Until that day, people will continue to lay suckling from that tit that we call religion.
I'm not saying that "lack of beliefs" is a choice. I understand that some people either don't try to think that far into things, or are unwilling to take the chance that they may be wrong or right about somthing that they don't truly know.
i say the thing that has be "engrained" in people as you say , IS that there is no "magic" and "miracles" and "God", even though people may habitually say the word, these concept are the modern day fairy tales like the Greek myths of old, designed to spread some moral and not really questioned or thought about..... Sunday school backwash of the mind..
We are not taught in school that any divinity exists...it's all science and logic. The golden age of religion and spirituality in the western world is all but on it's last leg. Everything is money this, and power that. Everyone is taught to hoard as much **** as they can before they die into that unknown nothingness... and where would spirituality fit into that equation?
maintaining Balance is possible in all of this, it is just extremly trying at times. Which is why the world is like it is. A constant tug of war between our instincts and our culture.
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