Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

I understand why people choose religion as their security blanket, but I will never understand why they choose religion as their security blanket.

huh? I do not understand what you are saying here. Do you or do you not understand why they choose religion as their security blanket?

What I was saying was that I understand from a psychological standpoint why people look for answers or purpose or whatever, but I have no idea why people choose lines of thought that also have utterly ridiculous caveats like "no coffee" or "no masturbation" or "you have to marry your rapist" or "no shaving" or any other number of crazy rules that all religions have.

I was just tying to imply such without being too inflammatory. But I guess that's defenestrated now!

Also, I feel this Flash file is appropriate: http://thebest404pageever.com/swf/Mormon_Jesus.swf

It's how I learned everything I know about Mormons.