Religion
In reply to the discussion: Does anyone here think there is too much religious entitlement here on DU? [View all]Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)However if your claim is that "gods" exist in the sense that math exists there is a huge amount of fail in that.
Let's start with verifiability. Regardless of whether numbers exist outside of human experience, we can verify that the huge body of theoretical work by humans on numbers applies to the real world. For example we can use math and physics to predict with great precision where an orbiting body will be at a certain point in time, and our predictions can be verified. Math is hardly in the delusional category.
Where is the verification for the ideas about gods? Oh right, there is none. Nothing. It is all nonsense and fairy tales. Just so stories that explained the observed world to ancient people, that then became institutionalized and millennia later, completely obsolete in their explanatory power, are instead indoctrinated into people and used for social control.