robinrohan writes:
You think that's how it went, Lam?
Actually, no. I think it was something like:
Person A: What's fire?
Person B: Um... uh... it must be beyond our comprehension.
Person C: Hey, you're right. There must be a "supernatural being" of some sort to maintain the fire.
Person A: Ok, let's all worship the fire "god".
*Some time later*
Person D: Killing each other is not going to get our society very far.
Person E: Hooga booga kooga shooga...
Person F: I am the translater for the oracle. The oracle said that the fire god wants us to stop killing each other and start fighting off outsiders.
This sounds like a rant against religion to me rather than a comment on the topic. Religion might have justified a few other things as well.
It's a quick and easy way to justify a lot of the things that come naturally to people. People have the tendency think too highly of themselves. Putting black people down sure made a lot of them feel better. But sometime along the way, some must have asked a question like "why are blacks inferior?"
"Because they're descendants of Cain," said someone else. It made it a lot easier for people to swallow the concept of an inferior race.
So no, it wasn't a rant about how bad religion is. I was stating my opinion that religion has an advantage over science and philosophy because it is easy to swallow and it justifies a lot of prejudice and hate that people tend to have.