In social psychology today we talked about the belief persistance. It basically states that any concept or belief you have will persist even after proven wrong. This very clearly related to religion. As an exchristian I know how I was constantly making excuses for my "faith" and adjusting my regurgitated answers to fit questions they didn't apply to. That's how it is. Religious people are always seeing things through the lens of the existance of a god and constantly ignoring the fact that their and all other gods don't exist. They are constantly challenging science which is fact and blindly following uneducated men that are pathetic and needy for a god to unconditionally love them. They can't see that all the facts show no god exists because they can't let go of the heirarchy in which they learn everything. A heirarchy established with a base that there is a god.
When I was a "Christian" and finally was becoming convinced that there might not be a god I was scared that since my life before was based on the premise of a god controlling everything I would be crushed and lost without him. But it happened and I was completely fine. Just a little adjusting old habits.
Why was it fine. Because there never was a god and the only thing that had truely changed in my life was my perception of things. Nothing that had happened previously in
My life had disappeared or changed. I just saw it from a different point of view.
More to come...
So to sum it up... christians cant help being stupid. (as well as the other religions... don't think I forgot about you). It's just a biological/ evolutionary process that forbids them from going against their upbringing, even if that be mythology from tens of thousands of years back. (meaning their thoughts are consistant with men and women that thought the earth was flat, and was contained within a ball of water (we now know as the sky)
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