"I read somewhere..."

[LondonManc]

yes but most of this has now been explained, so why are there still people who believe in a bearded guy in the sky?

Are you really that naïve?

Religion is the oldest control mechanism known to man. Control by fear. Instil the belief early on that they'll burn in hell for all eternity if they don't believe everything you tell them. Silence critics either by derision, excommunication or violence. Scrap religion and you'd have to find some other way of controlling people or inspiring them. Imagine having people pulling together for the common good rather than serving to divide and conquer. I'm no Trekkie, but that seemed to be the message that Gene Roddenberry was trying to get over.

[PurpleGorilla]

yes but most of this has now been explained, so why are there still people who believe in a bearded guy in the sky?

Or bearded gal in the sky. Let's not be sexist!

[Eirikur]

That's rubbish. In the early days of history, belief in supernatural beings is a logical step in attempts to understand the universe. It would be a very unimaginative, incurious group of uneducated humans who didn't posit the existence of god[s] in the absence of any sort of scientific understanding.

yes but most of this has now been explained, so why are there still people who believe in a bearded guy in the sky?

[diseasex]

That's rubbish. In the early days of history, belief in supernatural beings is a logical step in attempts to understand the universe. It would be a very unimaginative, incurious group of uneducated humans who didn't posit the existence of god[s] in the absence of any sort of scientific understanding.

I still believe in a tree and a lightning . But my faith has then evolved into more sophisticated concept of multigod. All in all out of millions religions, thinking that christianity is the right one is bit bulltulip.

But hey! theres god merciful that only killed few billions of people in bible (flood, sodoma gomora), tortured (Hiob) etc etc

[LondonManc]

He died of Asphyxiation. Not boredom.

Could have been a fate worse than death. Three minutes later and he'd have drowned in gravy sweat anyway.

[Old Greg]

I had a friend (lost touch a few years ago) who one day lost the plot on the way into work. Stopped his car on a roundabout and started pulling other motorists out of their cars.

Apparently all in the name of god, looking for 'wrong uns'. Those he said "you're alright" to have probably gone on to become self made visionaries wearing turquoise trackies.

Before that day he was 'one of the lads', very outgoing. Since then he's been on meds and not a shadow of his former self. Never got a proper answer to what made it happen, which is perhaps as scary as what could have happened.

Was it a proper roundabout or just a mini-roundabout?

[FatLazyContractor]

He died of Asphyxiation. Not boredom.

[BrilloPad]

Wasn't it Diamonds are forever where the goods were smuggled inside the body?

[vetran]

This will teach him to sit next to MF , died of boredom

Atlanta International Airport sees rotting corpse was wheeled into the X-ray machine | Daily Mail Online

One for the DEAD BODY scanner: The moment a rotting corpse was wheeled into an airport and scanned in the X-ray machine
The decaying body was checked in at Atlanta International Airport
Crusty passenger was actually a prop from Texas Chainsaw Massacre
One TSA agent took to social media and said 'talk about deadheading!'

[d000hg]

Makes sense , believing in this bulltulip had to start with brain damage.

That's rubbish. In the early days of history, belief in supernatural beings is a logical step in attempts to understand the universe. It would be a very unimaginative, incurious group of uneducated humans who didn't posit the existence of god[s] in the absence of any sort of scientific understanding.