Religion/Politics

On the one hand, it is difficult for me to understand how religious books carry conviction, except within the theatre of group and personalised threats, through the indirect or direct theatres of power and authority, as the material each contains is often temporal and malicious.

I certainly think that belief in these books has much to do with the human conviction of our specialness. We are the only remaining Homo specie left, all the others died off, and our nearest relatives, chimpanzees, are sufficiently unlike us to be ignored. We look around and believe we stand alone. Therefore we require a relationship elsewhere, finding that relationship with a god.