Why do religions exist?

Seriously, why the fuck do we still have monotheistic religions when now they are banning adopting for ALL couples who are not married in a state. They say this is to STOP THE GAY AGENDA LOL when they fail to realize many straight couples refuse to get married due to legal issues this may bring for the future.

Since when the fuck did America become the Christian Empire, and when the fuck can we expect this shithole country to go over and die for being fucking assholes? This shit pisses me the fuck off.

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>"The validation for science comes from metaphysics as does god's validation."

No. Metaphysics IS a science (though a pretend one, lower on the ladder than even social sciences), and as you've said science can't be used to justify itself. Metaphysics deals specifically with that which is outside of science, yet those who study it declare it a science anyway.

The scientific method is justified because it is inherent to mankind (exception being people toss it aside when believing in God) and we are scientific beings. We exist within the realm of science. Because science deals with what can be known, proven or supported with evidence, the only way we will begin to take anything as a better method than the scientific one is by convincing us that knowledge is unimportant. That believing in some magical force is better than knowing about a natural one.

More importantly, God HASN'T even been proven as a metaphysical fact. There is no such thing as a metaphysical fact. Provable facts are the realm of science. Anything OUTSIDE of science is conjecture.

Just read the Wikipedia page on the Trademark Argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_argument), especially the part titled "Criticisms of the Trademark Argument". Rene Descartes has not proven God as a fact, a law, or even a theory. I'm not even sure a hypothesis is a hypothesis if it refuses to meet evidence head on because it knows it can't ascend to a theory. Then it becomes a fairy tale.