The purpose of life is to survive and procreate. It is a common purpose in all life forms, including humans.
You are over analyzing it. It is pretty simple. People fear death and develop self coping mechanism to deal with that fear.
Have you noticed that poor and uneducated people are more religious than educated and independently wealthy. Why is that?
Poor and uneducated have more to fear and need some hope (any myth will do) to help them cope with their problems and questions.
Saying that some bronze stone texts have any insights is like saying that Pinocchio fairy tale is a good source of engineering knowledge.
People are killing and mistreating people in the name of those religious texts. Even today. How can you say that slavery is a good thing?
You know it causes harm. People who wrote these texts were psychopaths.
Actually I am confident you are underanalyzing it.
If we drilled down into each of your points we would find we disagree on a lot.
We would disagree on the reason the poor and uneducated people are more religious than educated and independently wealthy.
We do disagree on the insights available in religious texts.
We would probably disagree on the nature, source, and definition of evil as well as the root cause of most human suffering.
I don't know where you got the idea I said slavery was a good thing so we would disagree on whatever logic you took to reach that conclusion.
If we debated each of these points to exhaustion and were both honest in our dialogue we could probably in short order trace them back to a difference in basic assumption.
I suspect that at the foundation you have accepted basic premises about the universe such as things are essentially random and that there is no ultimate purpose to life beyond the mechanical act of propagation and reproduction. Such a metaphysical foundation is not something you can prove. It is something you assume apriori your faith if you will. I on the other hand have adopted a very different apriori Truth so we disagree and that is ok.
Once you understand that our primary difference is one of faith you can better understand the pathological hatred of some extremist have on both sides of the division. Not everyone is up to a challenge to their faith. Many of us do not examine it and cannot clearly articulate it. Those most lacking in self reflection deny they have a faith. Disrupt the foundation and the entire edifice of beliefs built upon it becomes unsound. People can and often do lash out rather then face that.
Take popcorn1 for example. He is so riled up that that he is not only swearing but when he quoted my post he took the time to delete part of the link to Jordan Peterson's fantastic lecture series to make it nonfunctional. Some people simply cannot handle challenges to their faith.
Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of Godhttps://www.y
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But some SO CALLED SMART ASS looks to deep into shit BULLSHIT.. Then he thinks of BULLSHIT then tells the world bullshit.
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From the religious texts:
https://www.openbible.info/topics/slaveryhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/slavery-in-judaismhttp://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/says_about/slavery.htmlSome wisdom! You are in denial. All these "sacred" texts are a bunch of hog wash. All of them. There is nothing to discuss.
Killing men, women, babies, gays, atheists, non-believers; are you kidding me?
Fix your moral compass then we can talk. Until then anyone following ANY religious ideology is just a closet psychopath killer. Dreaming of 'ISIS' killing fields.
"We are right, you are wrong, we'll be saved, you'll rot in hell" type of thinking. "Plucking eyes"??, c'mon Jesus, for a supposedly good
guy there is some inconsistency in your 'peaceful' message LOL.
Religious ideologies should be banned, period. They are inhumane. If you don't see it, you did not read any religious texts or are in a major denial.
You are ignoring the overall effect of one major aspect of your killing idea. Consider this simple point. If you have a serial killer, who will not change, but will keep on killing if you allow him to be free, what is the right thing to do? Allow him to be free, and thereby help him in his killing? Or kill him via execution, and stop the killing by killing him.
You seem to want to run around without much deep thinking, yet at the same time you seem to want to use words that suggest you have some deep thinking. You are missing a lot.