On 12/30/2018 7:55 PM, Rod Speed wrote:



But can't actually cite the evidence to support your point of view.

As did you.

Yes I did with the numbers involved with the sport fans and religious.

I must be blind. Still don't see them.

Tribalism is akin to religion. Most seek religion for life's guidance.

More accurately, most do need some sort of crutch for their minds
because most find it very hard to accept that there is no purpose
to life, we evolved from pond slime and happen to be by far the
most intelligent and close to the most successful species that
evolved and that when we inevitably die, that’s all there is.

Life's guidance are for those who are obviously lost in the
direction of their life's path.

Not lost so much as uncomfortable with the idea that
there is no purpose in life, that all of us are currently
a more or less sentient collection of complex
molecules and that once we die, we just rot.

They aren't secure enough to direct themselves and require that
guidance.

That clearly isnt what drives sport tribalism.
Sport tribalism must have evolved because
it had an evolutionary advantage.

One can have a favorite team, win or lose, yet refrain from
disparaging others for their choices.

But we don’t see much of that with religion.
For some reason we do see massive amounts
of disparaging others for their choices with
religion and given that something like 90%
or so do believe in some form of higher being
etc its hard to claim that all of those are insecure.

You're not paying attention if you believe that and I know you're
smarter than that. You may not see much of it within a general
population since it may consist of the same religious belief, thus,
why would they disparage each other?

But they clearly do anyway between sects with the roman
catholics/protestants and sunni/shia, let alone the aluites etc.

Let's view the differences of religious beliefs and remember why most
wars are started.

That’s a different problem with some stupid enough
to believe that they will end up in hell if the current
king believes in the wrong sect etc.

Irrelevant. It's still a problem and still the main reasons most wars begin.

Inferior people don't.

Hard to claim that most religious people are
inferior although it is certainly true that they
do need a crutch for their 'minds'


Requiring a crutch displays a form of inferiority.

Yes, but hard to claim that 90%
are inferior,Â* simple arithmetic.

Can't prove they aren't.

Thus, if religious people require a crutch, they have inferiority issues.

Much more likely that they just don’t like
the idea that we just evolved and that there
is no more purpose to our lives than there
is with a mosquito or fly or ant etc.

Again, inferiority being unable to accept there isn't a higher power.

And that appears to be a byproduct of a
better brain given that you don’t see too
many animals or insects or plant grovelling
to some god very often.