Reply #72: I'm sick and tired of humans blaming their foibles on an external source.

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Like "people are evil because Satan is in their lives". No...people do heinous things because they're deathly frightened or insecure or just plain sociopathic due to not learning to share when they were toddlers. I'm sick of the whole "manifest destiny" and humans thinking they're superior to other species--or even other humans--because "God" has smiled upon them. I'm sick of humans killing, maiming, subjugating other cultures because of some shadowy Authority figure who's bestowed the privilege on them--an authority no one's supposed to question.

No, I don't believe in God, and if we were all honest with ourselves, we'd admit we don't have any real information as to why we're here or how we got here. Humans haven't even begun to solve that mystery, but at least the scientist are trying to find factual proof. God people just assume you should accept a fairy tale without question.

All's I can say is my ancient, one-celled ancestor didn't crawl out of the primordial ooze, fight to survive through the millenia, only to waste that big brain by believing in ego-salving drivel in the 21st century. Following Jesus is just fine with me--his PURE philosophies are absolutely the key to human evolution. But why take an enlighten HUMAN'S brilliant insight from 2000 years ago, and make it about God and divinity? Aren't we smarter than that by now?