Originally Posted by RockyRaab
That is precisely my point, Jim: Humans deify EVERYTHING. Gods and religion are simply madeup superstition from the time when Og couldn't understand why his children died or even why it rained. There had to be something invisible that controlled it all. Hence, gods.

Then some clever villager realized that if he declared himself the only emissary that could talk to those gods, he could be as powerful as the village chief. And presto there were priests and their contrived version of reality/religion.

I see no error in this. To think any of "it" is literal is silly at best, IMO. Man learns from "it" and applies "it" to modern life, not blindly believes because "it" says so in "THE" book. All the contrived nonsense men use to try to justify and explain "it" is what is the silliest of all.

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Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?