with that said, let's loop back to "religious" people. > why do they need to believe their canonically incomprehensible deity to care about them specficially?  > why do they think its perception and conception of the "seperation" between it and its creation is anything like theirs?  > why do they think its metrics of "good and evil" and "benelovence and cruelty" are anything like theirs?  let's ignore the connotations of modern language for once. generally speaking: if your deity is a common denominator and creative, generative principle and one -- or the -- motive force of nature: why interprete it strongly in your favor or the misfortune of someone else? you can acknowledge other and more tangible forces of nature for what they are without trivializing, scorning, anthropomorphizing or straight up idolizing and worshipping them, why not "god"? likewise, if you dedicated your life to a deity and its scripture, then why would you never even try to learn the languages of what's left of the source materials? it's simple: religion has regressed to fortune telling for a profit. clergy, the psychics, cold-read and sell people on the idea that there's a "ghost" in the room --telling them what they want to hear, not what they are ought to hear. then clergy proceeds to make its newfound flock (co-)dependant on its mediation and the dictate of that "ghost". now, whether the "ghost" exists is completely irrelevant to the grift itself. so, how would you try to reason people out of the grift without divorcing the psychics and their conception of that "ghost" from the idea itself? needless to say: by burning the scripture you'd just make people forget the magic trick. when another clown comes to town and performs the magic trick again, everyone will clap again and you're back at square one. you wouldn't resolve anything. worse: you'd surrender the great tool that is this "ghost", yet again.  (cont.)
Germany