/lit/ - Literature

Are you guys actually religious or is it just a meme on this board?

It's 2018 guys it's fucking embarrassing to be religious at this point

- We know the universe is 13.8 billion years old and dictated entirely by physical laws
- We know these physical laws give rise to evolution which can produce conscious beings
- We understand the all too human origins of the hundreds of religious faiths on Earth that are all nonsensical and mutually incompatible early attempts of apes to explain their surroundings
- We know that we are nothing but matter and chemical reactions and that there's no such thing as free will
- Almost no public intellectuals who are taken seriously are religious
- No arguments for religion or God withstand even the mildest scrutiny

I can only think of 2 reasons to believe in God in resistance to all reason
1. You've spent your life doing it, praying, dedicating hours and week to practising religion, and are struggling to come to terms that this time was entirely squandered
2. Given everyone here affiliated with the humanities, they are not well versed in science and cling to "humanities type" explanations for things. Scientific explanations are unfamiliar and scary and you feel they trespass and violate your beloved subjectivity. You also don't want to feel left out of investigating the nature of existence, despite how useless we know our minds to be at investigating complex questions without the aid of instruments.

It may suck for you, but it's time to join the rest of the intellectual world in the 21st-century.