Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~It’s just designed to give people a hope that some subsequent life will be awesome, even though this one is awful. In other words, it’s just wishful thinking.
~“Come to Jesus, get all your problems fixed?” Yeah, that sounds like something people would never make up.
~Society needs rules, and some people early realized that these rules would have more potency if people believed they came from some always-watching being who would catch you even if the cops didn’t.
~We worship because we are afraid of something, and God is just a way to feel we have a sense of power and insight in a dangerous and confusing world.
If men made it up, then you’d expect to find lots of discrepancies and scientific errors in the Bible. ~Well, whuddaya know?
~If it were really true, we would see it working far more effectively than it does.
~People have a desire to extend their existence and power into an eternal state, so they have to manufacture one to do the trick.
~If someone just walked up to you in a scenario where you had never known religion at all and told you this story, you’d laugh at him for coming up with such an implausible lie.
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Is religion man-made? (Stanley Fish)
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