Originally posted by scottishinnz
I'm afraid I must find in favour of the late Professor Gould. Whilst theism has many "nice" features for the believee, it is ultimately setting people up for a tremendous fall should it be found to be false. Likewise, as is normally pointed out, many wars have been conducted, and still are, in the name of religion. In one of the other threads (the on ...[text shortened]... take a whizz on themwere they on fire - after all, that's obviously God's will too.....
"...ultimately setting people up for a tremendous fall should it be
found to be false." You think the theist has a bad way to go if they
are wrong, that is nothing compared to the atheist and agnostic
should their belief in the God variable be wrong. There have been
many wars for a variety of reasons, not all of which had religion
as the center and of those, basically it wasn't always the religion
that was really the root cause, just the justification to do what the
people wanted to do at the time.
The other stuff is you brought up can be talked about, but only
shows us we live in a dangerous world nothing more.
Kelly