[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by DavidG:
You seem to be implying that there is 'good observations and proofs' for whatever particular religion you believe. So why have so many people got it wrong?

Well, Freud got something right in that religion can be used for substantiating our desires (his mistake was reducing religion to only that). I tend to be a pretty rational and logical person (sometimes to a fault), but on many issues I'm sure we've all noticed that people aren't totally rational. One of my favorite quotes from Nietzche goes something like "If you were to prove God to me, I would believe in Him all the less." Hardly sounds like a detached observer to me. In conservative Christian circles today there is an arugment over whether God knows the future. A main proponent of the position that God does not, bases his drive for that position on his not wanting to blame God for his brother's death in a motorcycle accident. Again, hardly a detached starting point. Any number of reasons could be given for why people hold to wrong beliefs, but they do - and religion hardly has the corner on this market...