What Really Makes God Happy?

[kalm]

Lets be clear on what we (the arguers) are debating most frequently on this board regarding religion...
Almost never is it about "God" in a direct sense
Its about ridiculous claims about what God wants or what god does
as well as the absurd claims about what the Bible is and how it should be defined

That is the battlefield right there...

As far as personal faith and the ability to say "I don't know but this is what I believe" I think we can all let that stand without much fighting

Hey, I just happened to like Andy's line about religion not providing the answers, just providing the grace to deal with life. Is that ok with you, Mr. Fancy Pants?

[Chizzang]

Lets be clear on what we (the arguers) are debating most frequently on this board regarding religion...
Almost never is it about "God" in a direct sense
Its about ridiculous claims about what God wants or what god does
as well as the absurd claims about what the Bible is and how it should be defined

That is the battlefield right there...

As far as personal faith and the ability to say "I don't know but this is what I believe" I think we can all let that stand without much fighting

Hey, I just happened to like Andy's line about religion not providing the answers, just providing the grace to deal with life. Is that ok with you, Mr. Fancy Pants?

I was awkwardly agreeing with you and Andy... its awesome
I was just making sure that the Devoutly Religious on this forum don't confuse what you and I are liking about the above comments...

In other words, lets NOT STOP arguing dammit..!!!



John F. Schumaker,
Author of Wings of Illusion, echoed this anthropological view. “Magic, religion, and all forms of reality distortion are simply species-specific responses unique to the human animal,” he argued, an adaptive technique making us feel more secure and protected. Any “amplified state of consciousness” helped humans deal with the not very appealing idea that life is “chaos followed by oblivion.” Normal intelligence is simply not enough, this line of thinking goes, with humans capable of suspending reason and logic in order to construct different kinds of mythologies. Creating illusion and escaping reality provide self-worth, meaningfulness, and power, functioning as a kind of “counter-intelligence.” To Schumaker, suggestibility was the “most fascinating of all human characteristics,” and a way we were different from all other forms of life.