DuracellEnergizer said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
In all seriousness, I'd like to ask...
What is the point of Religion?
I've never understood what the practical benefit is of believing in something that by default has no proof behind it (That's what faith is). I'd be genuinely interested in how and what it adds to life that many consider it worth spending time, effort and money on?
When travelling in a car, I'd rather there by someone behind the wheel to steer the damn thing than for the front seat to be empty and the car to be headed on a course straight off the edge of a cliff.
Of course, this analogy applies to theism more than religion specifically.
Whether an athiest or a theist, the car never has anybody behind the wheel. Because, for a theist to believe that God would favour their car over anyone else's on the highway is shear vanity and the athiest believes that random chance is driving the car and nought else. But whatever you believe, the car is still going off the cliff anyway.
It's what you do while you are in the car that matters.
A theist would spend their time reading and re-reading the owners manual and trying to gleam some sort of meaning from it and building a shrine in the glove box. Occasionaly looking out the windows and disaproving of other motorists who weren't driving according to their interpretation of the highway code or were driving cars of different makes and colours (Especially the pink cars!).
The atheist would just marvel at the beautiful view out the window, stick the radio on to their favourite station and enjoy the music for as long as the journey lasted.
LOL