Quote Originally Posted by Caprisun View Post
So my personal opinion would be that our higher levels of consiousness which resulted from the growth of our brains and it's use as a sexual ornament, have made us prone to psychological illness where our dumber ancestors never had any problems. Religion and spirituality are ways of coping with these ailments. With greater pleasure comes greater pain and only with effective coping strategies can we control our mental state to a level where we can live a normal and productive life.
So religion and "spirituality" are ways of coping with a "psychological illness" inherited from our "dumber ancestors." Okay. Now do you have anything empirically supported to say, or are you only offering speculative bullshit?