Thread: Heroes For Gods?

Isn't it a strange trip that for some people whether they live or die depends on some other person believing something that is at best unprovable and at worst a fairy tale. There is no more likelihood that the bible or the koran are any more correct and factual then the myths of the ancient Greeks, Romans, or Norseman. As Sam Harris says, we wouldn't accept someone praying to Neptune that they have a safe sea voyage although to the ancient Greeks their gods were no more a 'myth' than ours.

Meanwhile we are subjected to the diatribes of the true believers who are sure of something that is based on nothing but unreliable texts, many written hundreds of years after the 'facts' they relate by scribes who either made mistakes while they copied the manuscripts or deliberately added or subtracted from them based on their own self interest.

Strange trip is all I can say. People talk about morals ... we are mammals whose brains are just large enough to be superior to a chimp while our egos are large enough to suppose us to be made in the image of god. It would be comedy if the resulting death toll didn't keep rising.