I'm saying because religions and religious concepts are always misrepresenting reality with imaginary things like souls, spirits, gods, sins etc. so they're working as a perfect obstacle between a person and the truth. Religious concepts are indeed compelling and attractive, and once you...
Meaning is something we feel the need to give to things. But there doesn't have to be any. Really. It's as you say. Emotions are triggered in response to external stimuli and stored as data for future retrieval.
...reasons on a daily basis..? ...but religious people won't stop accusing us of immorality, and telling us that the world would sink in immoral chaos if there was no religion, when the most secular nations such as Sweden, Norway, Japan, Czech Republic, Estonia, etc. enjoy the lowest crime rates...
...about His Son? God says in the Bible very clearly that people can make it to Heaven, only through His son, Jesus. Why do Christians believe they have the authority to change God's words. God never said He would judge fairly depending on whether or not they got to hear His word or about His...
...that's know as religious ecstasy? But every culture attributes these set of sensations and emotions to their local deities, spirits and ancestors. Doesn't this fact prove that the believer attributes their phenomena to the deities they have already learnt about through religious education and...