2012-08-30, 02:45 AM
Locked Wrote:[citation needed]
The only "logical fallacy" I can think of are the theories of the birth of the universe. Personally, I believe that a higher entity started the cycle at the very beginning, but he's gone now, so pineapple 'em. There is already a bit of evidence showing that biological matter can form from nonbiological matter, which is why I left that out. Honestly, I would put a real, working theory of the creation of the universe sometime midcentury, but that's just me. After that point, rate of technological advance will increase exponentially due to the complete debunking of religion; only an idiot would follow something that is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be wrong.
Not saying there aren't idiots in this world, but the vast majority are just confused, looking for validation, or content with falling into line with others just so they don't have to go through the inconvenience of sticking out. Humans aren't inherently stupid, civilizations are. You can individually get logic through to a mass much easier than you can convince a large group of people gathered together. Sort of a form of bullying by singling them out, but I would argue that abolishing religion would be an incredibly positive effect on society and individuals alike, thus making it acceptable to be a little heavyhanded (psychologically, not physically) with the laggards. Of course, it could come out that god exists and is still present, but that would probably descend us into another dark age that we may never recover from, so I'd say ignorance would be better than knowledge; we do not have the capacity to understand entities completely beyond ourselves, that's what MAKES them completely beyond us. For that matter, if some lesser entity such as myself is capable of forming that thought, it would be arrogant to think that they are not capable of doing so as well, and because of that they stay out of the equation entirely just so humanity doesn't destroy itself in the quest to understand that which cannot be understood. No matter how bad crusades and other atrocities committed in the name of religion were, they would pale in comparison to cleansing with an actual, PHYSICAL avatar as the "stimulus" instead of one that is simply on a faith basis.