this colloquy back from algorithmic prestidigitations to the sense of my assertion: organized religions have proven to foster in their adherents - that attitude which regularly precedes war.

As Mike appends: yes it* is a lot about Certainty, and the both incompetent and duplicitious parent --> child misrepresentation of what such an idea might mean, if examined carefully.

* (it) = this process of raising little hooligans to become big hooligans: possessed of this (Certainty of) being Righteous; then compounded by the corollary: if.. I/we be Right, then assuredly the others are Wrong. Much follows from this process of inculcation of the false, especially the Certainty that the false is True.

(And to regress to the infrastructure level: ALL above assertions which are inculcated, suffer from at very least - the fallacy of Anonymous Authority. Calling that God, merely forces recognition of the metaphysical as being a process which derives solely from individual growth towards 'wisdom' (and more language problems) - something which no one can 'give' to another. No child could possibly comprehend an iota of what any of this might mean. Merely memorize and regurgitate. As I said.)

ie. My statement is no 'slam' at religion / metaphysics - more the opposite! There is nothing metaphysically insightful in regurgitating rote doggerel, then later justifying the extermination of those uttering different-doggerel - in the name of (being) Right(eousness).

Need I explicitly state (?) there is also nothing about, say "identifying a one's belief-system as [fill in religious label]" - which I label (or libel) as odious, in the above. Calumny I reserve for the practitioners of rote-inculcation of ideas too large for unformed minds, and for asserting that this memorization confers upon the victim: a Righteousness; and especially - one unique to [that group].

HTH - or we can go to Pidgin and dialect.


Ashton