Why is religion so infallible?

Scientific theories come and go, but religion is always there.

Oops!  Zeus and his friends have left the building!

we update theories. we can measure more accurately which makes us renew our theories.

>>3
What theory did you update lately?

>>1
That's because science is a system of reason-based knowledge, while religion is faith-based knowledge.  When you have faith that you know the truth, you've eliminated the need to look for it.  Science adjusts to available information and reasons a way to accomodate it, so naturally its knowledge changes over time as new information arrives.

Empiricism is infallible. Scientific realism is the faggotry that has to change every month.

Old (and true) copy pasta:
"There are 4000-8000 religions actively practiced today, worshipping 200,000-600,000 deities, depending on how you count. In 60,000 years of Human history, we have records of 20,000 religions worshipping over 2,000,000 deities. All told, it is estimated that in total there have been 60,000-70,000 religions worshipping upwards of 28,000,000 deities since the dawn of modern Man. That doesn't even include the religions of our evolutionary ancestors (for example there is evidence for neanderthal and other AMH societies having both religious and artistic tendencies)."

Science is far more self-consistent than Religion. Science has undergone a series of universally accepted (r)evolutions to better explain what evidence was available at the time. Religion is nothing more than a series of tens of thousands of sects with superstitious beliefs (nearly) all insisting that every other sect is wrong, sometimes with enough passion to start wars over.

Besides, I don't think you understand the definition of "theory" in a scientific sense. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory

>>1

Does anyone believe in Zeus, Thor, Odin, Horus or Osiris anymore?

I've heard of adherents to Thor, and his totem (an upside-down hammer) is widely available as jewelry, so there's likely to be some worship of Odin.

Worship of Horus was subsumed into Judeo-Christianity.  As we should well know, J-C was formed of a lot of diverse or pagan rituals and feelings.  Jehovah is a just a sun god revisited for a newer age.

>>9
Worship of Horus was subsumed into Judeo-Christianity.
Zeitgeist faggot.

Christianity is obviously syncretic, but Egyptian influences are far less obvious than that movie claims.
The Jewish god is primarily a mountain/volcano god. It's sad that even though there are so many interesting parallels you can draw between Christianity and other regional religions, all the Zeitgeist guy (and, to a lesser extent, Brian Flemming in The God Who Wasn't There) does is pull stuff out of his ass.

actually good sir, Religion isn't infallible, only god is infallible. And I know why. Only the privileged upper class know why. Are you upper class?... do you know?

The answer is simple, but here is a riddle to answer you with...to get your minds thinking in the direction that will help you understand why;

In order to be infallible, you must be right when you are right and right when you are wrong. How is this possible?

>>>>"There are 4000-8000 religions actively practiced today, worshipping 200,000-600,000 deities"

Wow and three of those religions worship one deity and they are together the largest group of human beings on earth.

Therefore God/Jehovah/Eloh/Allah Exists

>>10
Zeitgeist faggot.
I didn't see the movie and in fact had no idea what the movie was about.  The construction of Judeo-Christianity from previous and pagan forms is well known ... just not to Jews and Christians, obviously.

Egyptian influences
As long as you admit there are Egyptian influences, then I'm right.  And you know what that means, don't you?:

REDCREAM IS RIGHT AGAIN!

>>13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Though for the sake of ranting, the next biggest groups after Christianity (2.1 billion followers) and Islam (1.5 billion) are Atheism/Agnostism/Irreligion (1.1 billion) which worship exactly zero deities and Hindu (900 million) with many sects varying from Atheism to Pantheism to Polytheism with over 300,000 deities.

You could also argue that the various sects of Christianity and Islam have a few different deities (or at least different interpretations of the same one), seeing as many will damn you for eternity for not believing in their particular reading. Even if you just divide Christianity and Islam into two big sects each, one that welcomes alternative interpretations and one that doesn't, you now have the largest single group being the people with no religion at all.

Therefore, deities don't exist. ;D

Majority feeling still isn't evidence.

>>14
Whatever you need to tell yourself, dude.

Chemicals never existed until we said they exist.  Neither did light.  Because we say it, it is so, and therefore, everything everyone says is infallible.  It makes perfect sence.

>>18
sorry you lost me

>>19
That's because you don't have faith, sinner.

ITT people need a dictionary wherein they can look up the word ``infallible''.

And "sarcasm"...>>21