@blatham,
Quote:So that's one reason I'm sympathetic to certain religious behaviors.
Yeah, it was religious folks that started much of the sciences. They had the courage to accept results that went against every fiber of the moral and cultural being..
I'm not against religion per se. I think its the inevitable outcome of language. Without articulation, what we call religion I would describe as 'wonderment'. I think this because language is defacto 'spiritual'. A symbol for something else no less! (What's the corollary there I wonder??). Its an immaterial, proxy phenomenon that we often mistake for the thing itself. A logical error until we developed, ironically, the philologistic language to understand how to partition what was 'real' in language and what wasn't. My bet is that Trump hasn't read these things yet..or maybe he has..hmmm...!