Why is religion not given the same reputation as flat-earthers or believing Santa exists? #religion
0This is gonna sound awful, but due to a complete absence of evidence for a creator or afterlife literally anywhere, why is religion not given the same reputation as flat-earthers or believing Santa exists?
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Absence of evidence is very different than evidence to the contrary.
Would people really work 40+ hours per week for most of their lives to make other people rich if they didn't believe they'd get pie in the sky when they die bye and bye?
Because technically an afterlife cannot be disproven, where as Santa and a flat earth can be.
Religions, at least those that are considered serious and dignified, had a several millennia long headstart over science and had entire civilizations built around them. If anything, it's amazing that science managed to become what it became despite it all.
the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I'm not religious but I can understand that religion and spirituality can help people through this challenging experience we call life.
Depends on your idea of “evidence”. For some people, it’s being saved from lowest point, for others it’s the philosophical question of “What caused the Big Bang?”.
SANTA EXISTS!!! IM TIRED OF THIS ARGUMENT
What if each religious person looked at their own religion with as much skepticism as every other one out there?
It's impossible to prove something doesn't exist, it's been proven that the earth is round. Religion is on exactly the same level as believing in Santa Claus though.
For a shorter answer than what I’ve seen here, also cause I’m in the middle of stuff but the notification caught my eye. Religion provides hope, explanations where science hasn’t gotten (what happens after death) generally speaking people are afraid of the unknown. It’s a security blanket
Because as a whole people have bought into it. Realistically there is 0 difference.
Because people can’t deal with the fact that they are responsible for themselves and their own moral compass.
Because a lot of people still believe it and it's incorporated deeply into a lot of present-day cultures, traditions and philosophies.
Listen to NDE (near death experiences) stories. It isn't evidence per se, but a lot of people have come back with information that's impossible to prove. Some have been able ro recall exact conversations in other rooms while they where clinically dead in the hospital for example. Some have met their unborn sibling and then verified that their mother had a misscarriage she never told etc.
Tradition
Absence of evidence is not the same thing as evidence of the exact opposite.
You can't prove it false. You can go to the North pole and measure the curvature. You'll never *prove* there isn't a god or gods.
The idea that there are things beyond the observable physical universe cannot be proved or disproved by observing anything in the physical universe.
Time and fear.
Because simple people need their ancient death cults to tell them things like "don't steal" and "don't kill people."
Bigger marketing budget...
Religion fulfills a sociological need. It creates a foundation for socialization with like-minded peers. Sports fans also have rituals that parallel with a church, ever noticed that?
Who said there is no evidence? Ok if you can prove with scientific facts God does not exist you’ll have accomplish something scientist have been trying to do for hundred of years. Religion can’t prove it. Science can’t disprove it. Go:
Religion has spent centuries murdering non believers so. . .
Spirituality is real and religion is an attempt at figuring that out. People run religions, you get people problems.
It's easier to believe in a creator than to believe life came from nonlife. Organisms can evolve, but how does something go from inorganic and evolve into organic?
We don't have evidence to disprove religion. We do, however, have more than enough evidence to disprove flat earth.
Because its a foundational aspect of all major civilizations through history.