Re: Question about your interpretation of religion.
gtall: "Islam, Christianity, even the many forms of Hinduism will provide that for the person who's incapable of enough introspection to find their own way in the world."
brettj: "Are you repeating what Ted Turner said, "Religion is for losers"?
No. It's the difference between a necessary and sufficient condition. For some, it is sufficient, it is those I worry about because they are then susceptible to seeing everything through religious eyes. For most of us, it is necessary, simply to arrive at any moral bearings. But most religions are intollerant of other religions, at least in practice. So how far is one to take one's religion. If it is to the extent that one begins to live in the next life before this one, then I contend that is going way overboard and leads to religious extremism.
As to you reading into the statement as far as you did, I didn't intend your intrepretation. Logic has nothing to do with it.
