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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4800414" data-attributes="member: 63706">This function of &quot;Authority&quot; is the main reason for religious thought. If you can believe that the stuff that is out of your control, that all that chaos of the things you don&#039;t know or understand is being handled by an all powerful, benevolent god, then you have some hope of living a well-rounded life, and might actually accomplish something. Without that assurance that something more powerful is handling the stuff that is too big for you, you tend to either live in constant terror, or you are completely oblivious to the unknown, in either case you are not very likely to accomplish much, and might as well be a herd animal.In the absence of god, we are left with any number of idols to fill the void. Most people use government, some use scientists, and perhaps worst of all, some use government scientists.As much as this mental process can be hijacked for bad when your &quot;authority&quot; is a magic friend in the sky, it can be hijacked even worse when your &quot;authority&quot; is the actual people doing the hijacking. No person or system of people is worthy of the title &quot;Authority&quot;. Once you understand that, and can develop even an agnostic sense of god, it becomes easier to see things for what they are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4800414, member: 63706"] This function of "Authority" is the main reason for religious thought. If you can believe that the stuff that is out of your control, that all that chaos of the things you don't know or understand is being handled by an all powerful, benevolent god, then you have some hope of living a well-rounded life, and might actually accomplish something. Without that assurance that something more powerful is handling the stuff that is too big for you, you tend to either live in constant terror, or you are completely oblivious to the unknown, in either case you are not very likely to accomplish much, and might as well be a herd animal. In the absence of god, we are left with any number of idols to fill the void. Most people use government, some use scientists, and perhaps worst of all, some use government scientists. As much as this mental process can be hijacked for bad when your "authority" is a magic friend in the sky, it can be hijacked even worse when your "authority" is the actual people doing the hijacking. No person or system of people is worthy of the title "Authority". Once you understand that, and can develop even an agnostic sense of god, it becomes easier to see things for what they are. [/QUOTE]

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