Philosophy Byte : Religion

[El Gordo]

Religion was invented to keep the human race from self destruction.

We all have enough intelligence to ask the big questions like .... is there a god ? Are we alone in the universe ? Where did we come from ?

Yet we don't have enough intelligence to enable ourselves find the answers. And that's not good because as a race, humans don't like that kind of uncertainty. It causes us to become unstable and ask dodgy questions like ... why bother ?

In steps religion to give us something to believe in or hope for, so we don't all go mass crazy.

Religion. The biggest and greatest band aid on the frabic of world society ever.

Humans don't like any kind of uncertainty, which is a problem most of the time, since we rarely have enough information to make reliable judgments one way or the other. You can see that here all the time. Whenever there is any kind of dispute there are people who rush to take one side or the other, when it would often be better just to accept that we will never know where the truth lies.

[BIGTYM2010]

***NOTE- There was no Christian Bible until the late 4th Century, when Pope Damasus I put the Canon together, which was ratified at the Councils of Rome, Hippo, and Carthage.* Therefore, it would have been impossible for the first Christians to have used "Sola Scriptura", or the Bible Alone as a guide to salvation. It wasn't until the 16th Century that this doctrine was invented by Martin Luther.