Yes, alienation is a psychological state but the effects of it can be seen on a global scale.
In terms of projection of human needs you seem to be specially pleading that a need for God or some view other than your reductionism. That unlike sex or a good meal a need for God is a special need that goes unmet and is somehow a special false need or a bad need. But hey I feel you maybe building up to a Darwinian finale.......You know the one about everything about getting your leg over.
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Sure, unlike sex and food, you can go without a god or goddess for decades. Both sex and hunger are natural needs, but you have to learn about gods.
You seem to need help actually landing a point in this argument. Perhaps I can help.
When within the correct distance for a glide of medium velocity to your contemplated landing place, shut off the engine and nose machine over to the proper gliding angle and head for the field in a direction to bring you directly into the wind. If you find you are too close to the field and your mahcine is developing excessive speed, start "S-ing" to reduce your speed as well as altitude. If you have considerable altitude to spare an easy spiral may be executed, but neither of these should be tried unless you are perfectly confident of their success. The best way is a long, straight glide into the field, and it gives one a fine chance to judge distance and wind.
On second thought, you're on your own.
what i THINK this guy is trying to say is this:
"Alienation (due to a lack of god) is a psychological state but can be seen on a global scale (based on my idiotic definition of behaviors that are ungodly).
In terms of projection of human needs you (whoever replied to him) are making the case that the need for God is somehow less important than the need for sex or food, or maybe that needing it at all is a flaw. I suspect that you (whoever replied to him) are probably a believer in evolution, which as all fundies know, is entirely about the drive for sex."
That's my best fundie-to-english. Still doesn't make sense though.
All I'm really getting out of this is that this guy thinks belief in a god (or gods) is as necessary as food or sex.
That's a stupid assertion for multiple reasons:
a) Hormones and the way the brain is wired form a biological basis for the drive for sex (unless you're an asexual), and without food, you fucking die! However, going without a belief in God doesn't cause your body to waste away and die, and there's been no biological basis found that drives a belief in god.
b) Belief in a god is an attitude that's learned and taught to you by someone else. Saying that it's as innately vital to your well-being as food and (for most people) sex is like saying that a working knowledge of the morphosyntactic alignment of Hindi is just as innately vital to one's well-being (which is ridiculous).
The only one doing the special pleading here is the fundie.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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