"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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"George M. Middius" cmndr [underscore] george [at] comcast [dot] net
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Trevor Wilson said:

**Not so. Some of us live our lives based on reality. Further, few of us
are
professionally involved in delusions.

You should make an effort to distinguish between delusions and
superstitions.

**I think the line is blurred.

Most religionists are sane enough to realize that they are
substituting faith in the unproven for knowledge. Very few are daft
enough
to say they "know" that their beliefs are congruent with reality.

**I disagree.

Trevor, I'm an agnostic myself. But I find surprising that you do not
acknowledge that many clerics, at least the better ones, provide valuable
life counseling to their parishoners. Moral guidance provided by religion
comes packaged in an assortment of superstitions, myths, demands for fealty,
promises of favor/forgiveness, distinction, exclusion, ritual, and ceremony,
which both you and I consider unpalatable. But this is precisely what the
vast majority of humanity requires, who are not possessed of universal
minds.

And you and I, as rationalists, have other problems with reality. Modern
physics has almost reached the conclusion that objective reality, in the
absolute sense, does not exist. What seems to be replacing it is a Universe
that is only as rational as it has to be.