Why don't some religious people provide us with an actual argument. im all riled up and I have nothing to go on. I'll just go anyway lol.
I have a religion, its called science. It helps me explain the unexplainable, it helps me understand and cope with death, it unites me with people of similar interests, it provides a solid foundation for all my beliefs. To me, that is the purpose of every religion. What frustrates me is that where I admit I use science as a crutch for when my mind is overwhelmed with the difficult realities of our world "religious folk" will fight to the death trying to convince the rest of us that their god exists.
There are lots of things that science can't explain, like wtf was before all of us, before the universe, where did it come from, and for that stuff I let it be. It is unknown to me, its not comforting but it's the closest I can get to the TRUTH.
Religious studies examines the origins of these fables and they all have logical explanations. Just the fact that these "prophets" arrived in times when europeans still thought sickness came from evil spirits makes me hesitate to accept any supernatural stories from that time.
Witchcraft, polytheism, and even animism are still widely followed throughout the globe. These practices may seem bizarre to us, but remember that they see what we believe as equally odd and unbelievable. Let this idea prompt you to question the validity of your own beliefs. Although I'm pretty sure I'm right, so do you think that your own views are correct. Where my beliefs are built on observable facts yours are built on the hearsay of men who lived thousands of years ago. As a last thought, how many of the ideas science have been refuted, rejected, and redone? Now how many religious ideas have undergone the same treatment?
