Mormonism is NO different than any other religion or club

[nadinbrzezinski]

158. It is actually simple

humans have a need to believe. And quite frankly modern quantum physics, to the average person, is quite frankly not just alien but weird.

Religions, all of them, have an internal logic. (For the record QM does as well, but the math is really, and I mean this, REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND) so most humans default to religious belief. As crazy as it sounds to have a man talking to a bush, or another rising from the death three days after he died (Horus started that shit, not Christ), they all are internally consistent and really non changing.

This is why a religion rises. This innate need to believe something higher than yourself.

Religions and science try to answer the same fundamental question. WHERE did we come from? and the other one, WHY?

Yes, Mormomism came to be after the enlightenment, in an era when most people really did not even know their numbers and letters and when witches, warlocks and all that were still ever present. In fact, many areas of the world still fit this description to a T... they happen to be regions where religions have a higher hold than others where more secular thinking has taken hold.

The US is becoming more secular, but it is still the MOST religious nation of OECD economies. THat is a fact Jack, you can bank on it. So yes, why we have had not one, not two, but several denominations rise over the course of the last 200+ years since the rise of the country as an independent nation. Let's not start with those that came and at times disappeared, in the Colonial period.

My personal favorite is Hubbard's little exercise. Don't tell the faithful, but that was on a dare with Heinlein.

I will repeat this about all religions at this point, especially due to that nonsense about "domion over the Earth and the creatures of the Earth." (Deuteronomy), at this point, they are all maladaptive. And yes Eastern religions have the equivalent. Yup, all of them, but we as a species need to overcome (hard to do, I think in this sense we might be domed as a species), this intense tribalism, which religion is part of...