Religious believe evolve differently than scientific believes. Facts are not important. What matters is that the believe support one’s prejudice that naturally support the interest.
The fact that they need to resort to such complexity to convince people should raise an eye brow. Perhaps in the past, it sort of works. Well, in the past we don’t have democracy, free market, and all that. Somebody got to rule. Convincing everyone that morality comes from God and can’t be changed make more stable government.
Now, with science answering everything, including morality, which is just one byproducts of humans interests, religious opinions tend to dwell only in minds of bigots that opposes others freedom. If it were true, there would have been plenty of scientific justification. It isn’t true, so they use religion.
The obvious sample is marriage. The real purpose in ancient time is to decide fatherhood, which is of course important in patriarchal society. Fatherhood definition allow proper distribution of inheritance that motivates males to take more risks and work far harder than what’s required to be well fed.
Now, if we want to know who the father is, just use DNA tests. The main reason why people support marriage is to ration females in equal share for everyone. In richer countries, prohibition of prostitution, porn, and sex workers from poorer countries allow uglier women to have higher chance to get a husband she can trample.
If there is any real good reason for marriage, science would have figured that out and the market would have taken care of it. If marriage is good for everyone then everyone will get married and they will make their own term that match exactly governments’ prescribed term (monogamy, life time, alimony proportional to males’ wealth, etc.).
The fact that governments have to prohibits so many alternatives shows that marriages actually sucks for the competitive.
Of course they need justification why you should do what sucks. Can’t do it with science. False scientific justification can and will be disproved. You need something you’ll get away with even if you’re wrong. Hence bigots use religions.
Why Are You Religious is a post from: Free Market Forever
