Paul1405
The main purpose of the monotheistic religions is to know and love God. Without monotheistic religion that's almost impossible. I say "almost" because direct personal contact with God does not depend on religion, but without religion discernment is more difficult. One of the few things worse than failing to recognise God is to mistake something else for God.

Buddhism seems to me to be the epitome of pointlessness. It starts with the philosophical opposite of Trotskyism (focussing on the bad things in this life, and ignoring the good) and then tries to escape reincarnation (a phenomenon for which there's no evidence at all) by seeking nirvana (also something there's no evidence for). Buddhism requires a lot of blind faith, but doesn't give you much that's worth having.

On the positive side, though, Buddhists do have a great insight not how the mind works, and in particular, how to be happy. So if you wish to be happy with failure, Buddhism may be for you!

But if you're after something more, try reading the Book of Ecclesiastes – for most of its length it's superficially similar to Buddhism, but it points to a genuinely better alternative in the end.

Not trying to be sarcastic but how can we be more than %50 sure that the whole show isn't just one big con ?

It is a matter of what one believes.

And these beliefs tend to be very resistant
to argument, no matter how blatant the evidence to
the contrary.

People are very resistant to their religious beliefs
being challenged. Believing that there's a kindly
but all powerful father figure in the sky who
watches and judges everything they do and his son who
died but came back to life two millennia ago and is going
to return any minute - some people would think is delusional.

Not if you've been raised in an environment where you've
been told by everyone that there's a kindly deity in the sky,
or that the world is 6,000 years old, or that there are
thousands of multi-armed gods controlling the world, or
whatever. Why wouldn't you believe it?

There's nothing that you experience on a day to day level
that contradicts this, so your mental model of the world
is fine with it. That's why delusions are only diagnosed
if they're not consistent with the person's "existing"
belief system and views.

A devout creationist talking to God while in church, that's
fine. However, saying the world is going to end in 30 minutes
because of a deity living in the sun, or believing they're
a world-leading business genius despite being a part-time
shoe shop employee, or believing in shadowy government
persecution and conspiracies, could be classed as being
delusional.

A devout evolutionist talking to 'mother earth', that's
fine. However, saying the world is going to end in 30 minutes
because of a global warming or believing by not mining coal things will change' ha ha

just shows that no matter how hard the god deniers try they end up with a set of dogmas no matter how irrational or unscientific

runner you old mate in your stand against global warming ext give evidence you fall for almost any story
Saw the threads above ignored them
because having another view has been greeted with insults and low blows by the authors
But in your lifetime doubt about global warming will end
God, whatever one you follow, would not be pleased with us

The Universe and Earth chemistry operates as a unity; except the mind and behaviour of man which operates in opposition to a moral compass.