Why do Intelligent People Still Believe in Religion? 22: Sacrifice | GinaConspiracy
He made the ultimate sacrifice for your sins People seem to think that if they repeat this enough, you will not be able to help yourself but to agree with them and convert
Our troops over there are making the ultimate sacrifice for our country so lets give the military all the money it wants, but ignore them once they get home Just the idea of sacrifice congers up strong images in our mind and emotions Why it is so easy to idealize war, revolution and self-sacrifice to a religion Self sacrifice seems like a self-defeating evolutionary mechanism, something that creationist assume must be from Jesus, and they assume that non-christians don't have it, but it really has a very useful evolutionary advantage, DonExodus2 is currently doing videos on self-sacrifice and kin selection if you want to know more In pack animals, the majority of the members of you tribe have some relation to you which means they share some of your genes, maybe not all of them but certainly some of them
Some of your genes getting passed on is much better than none at all, so if one of the tribe can sacrifice themselves to save the rest of the tribe, all will benefit genetically in the game of evolution So evolution placed the idea of self-sacrifice into the reward pathway system The idea of dying for someone else makes you feel good The idea of dying for your country even better The idea of dying for the most powerful being in the universe? The ultimate high
The idea of self-sacrifice and empathy for the people around you can temporarily overcome the fear of death which is a very powerful emotion as well Courage is the ability to temporarally forget or ignore the dangers that could happen to you This self-sacrifice toward a person can cause massive co-dependency making you a slave and a doormat to the person you are with Many people also repeat that they love the person they are with so much that they would die for them, but not actually put the effort in to treat them well in boring ways like maintaining a healthy relationship, because dying for someone is much easier and a better emotional rush that living for someone Governments use this emotional high in propaganda for wars
Especially since they are still running on the high people have from WWII movies which we believe to have been a righteous war Doing boring stuff like political activism, protesting and voting are looked on as boring, but I'd die for my country This is why Obama's plan to pay for college in exchange for community service is treated as socialism, but paying someone to go shoot someone else in a war we have no business fighting is good American sacrifice The tea party movement is using this emotional high along with blind rage to push the idea of a revolution against what the majority of this country wishes for It is much more of a rush to die for your country than it is to live for it
The idea of sacrificing yourself to god sounds wonderful Some give up everything for god, their families, their friends, their possessions and their lives to get the rush of following the way and being right Islamic extremeists blow themselves up for Allah for this reason as well, what a rush The majority however, prefer the idea of martyrdom, but don't want to do the boring difficult stuff, like actually following the laws in the bible It is much more of a rush to die for your savior than to actually live for him
Combine self-sacrifice, religion and cute and you have a potentially deadly combination called the pro-life movement Most are peaceful, some get themselves arrested and a tiny minority kill people for it, and feel like martyrs However they aren't taking into account the millions of parentless children out there who feel alone worthless and rejected I cannot even begin to imagine the suffering and pain these children go through There are some things much worse than death, abortion is not as horrible as the alternative sometimes
James says “Pure religion and undefiled before god and the father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world” I know of very few who visit the fatherless or elderly, they are in the minority of the religious population they would rather take away a woman's right to choose, along with her education for safe sex to prevent that It is more of a rush to sacrifice yourself to save the life of the unborn or just to feel like you saved a life than to actually enrich a life of the people who are already living Sacrifice is a useful evolutionary adaptation, especially in the days when the world was much more dangerous and our knowledge about the world ourselves and each other were so much less, and we must honor the people who do and have sacrificed themselves for us However now that we have advanced and are much safer and peaceful, there is less need for it
It is still a driving force though and an emotion that can be so easily manipulated It can make you feel like the sacrifice of someone else means that you should do the same, even if A) the person possibly didn't even exist in the case of Jesus or B) the sacrifice could be prevented through planning and reason Sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice means that someone is manupulating you You have to make your decisions through logic and reason, not with emotion, if you do you can end up someones slave and you may never even know it
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