and we need it to contain them

Of course, there's also the benefits of keeping some of the crazies from going complete apeshit

if you take away one god, about 50% of the people will just create their own

better the devil you know

It won't keep all of them, but it is better than having a truckload of white niggers murdering people left and right before offing themselves to escape physical justice.

Again. I’m a devout atheist.
But atheism should never be prescribed for a society.
Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Jainism, Zoroastrianism. There’s a tonne of religions that are a good prescription for society.

It's the peasant's philosophy.

It will always accompany minute differences.

Science and reason doesn't disprove the existance of God. You cannot prove a negative

That’s why true atheism is a faith.

But the commonality is in the desire for growth, the "God" that stares down to them is the place of safety and guaranteed future.

using science and reason to examine 'why' is simply 'divison by 0'

Undefined

very different from "Does Not Exist"

“I believe in the absence of God.”

^^

A pantheon of wild gods would have saved us for the long term

And I beleive in the essence of man

Lol

😉

whether man is a reflection of god or god is a reflection of man

makes little difference

I got some “man essence” for ya 😉

Ayyyyeeee

Whether the gods are inside us or outside us, it makes no difference as to whether there are gods.

It's an aesthetic means to an end.

by that logic, god DOES exist

It is often said that god is all things.

cause we do

So does Superman

No gods.
No magic.
Only man.

god is in all things man can perceive

@Scale_e i am describing god as concept, and not as a graven image from man's mind

anthropromorphic principle

exactly

I am aware of the way the Hindu sees the world being built, and how some view themselves as part of a dramatic simulation played by the Godhead within each of them.

my favorite expression about god is : (one sec)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21

@nim.bm

:"If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light... pure and unblemished... not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us."