Banned_Magnus wrote:
[People have a spiritual aspect to them. It is inherent in every culture and has been throughout history. This will probably never go away.
"Spirituality" or various "spiritual urges" are more likely a combination of various psychological factors that religions feed as a supernormal stimulus. I bet that the "spiritual need" will be broken down into interpersonal needs, the euphoria optimism (which includes positive illusions) produces, and the satisfaction gained from a lasting legacy. I'd even predict that in the early days, some of the more close-nit communist societies provided something analogus to this to people.
Banned_Magnus wrote:
So, how do you manage a whole population without steering their religious beliefs? It is as basic as our sex drives and will to live. Even if people are atheists, that is an ideology.
Atheism is not an ideology, it is the lack of theistic beliefs.
Atheists often have an accompanying positive ideology (one of the most common being anti-theism), but that doesn't mean that atheism itself is an ideology.
Banned_Magnus wrote:
Agnostics will often philosophize about spirituality even more so than the religious or atheists.
I don't know where that observation came from, nor do I see any reason to believe it.
Banned_Magnus wrote:
This is a human phenomenon that can't be dismissed or ignored.
It is a supernormal stimulus and it can be attacked as such.
Banned_Magnus wrote:
Why is it important to have people think the same way? Why can't we live together and know that so and so is Luciferean or that others are Christians?
Because, as a sort of definining doctrine of their religion, Christians would regard "Lucifereans" as subhuman and depraved, not that more than a handful really exist.
Banned_Magnus wrote:
We have evolved to the point where we can put aside our emotions and look at this logically.
As has been done sufficinctly above.