"What they fail to understand, is that as a species, we constructed these belief systems simply to support ourselves and destroying them simply will make us more insecure. " The problem well encapsulated. Thank you. Just to add a note that in the last two weeks, I've heard four publicly known atheists in separate interviews rueing or at least strongly connecting the loss of our Christianity with all its immutable values and its spiritual, emotional and social bulwarks to the rise of wokeism (a variant of narcissism to my mind) and all the chaos and destruction it's causing. It's been quite a shocker to say the least! So now I'm collecting instances of well-known atheists who are actually speaking up in appreciation of Christianity...

@@iggle6448 Thank you for your comment and I find the idea of re-evaluation Christianity fascinating. What is also interesting is that the same support system applies to gender roles. This is a piece a posted recently: The transgender illusion. Gender roles are not an imposition but an external support structure that allows young people to differentiate the male and female characteristics within themselves. We all have contra sexual elements within our personalities and these are often projected outward onto the opposite sex with whom we then form relationships. As maturity develops in later life and the pressures of parenthood diminish that which was once projected can be reclaimed and integrated into a mature individual. To short circuit this process in childhood before any development has taken place is to direct the young person to a pathway that can potentially lead to insecurity and neurosis and worse, it is an abdication of adult responsibility toward the child.

@@geralldus You make a strong point about structures that contain, strengthen and guide us as a society - and have done so since time immemorial. The sociologists probably have a long list of traditional buttresses, good and bad. Christianity has done us well for 2k years as did Judaism for 4k years before then. That speaks of the utility of the basic principles and values of these faiths. Though it has to be said: male and female have been immutably separate physical constructs since the first unsexed amoeba decided that reproduction involving two sexes resulted in more robust, healthier creatures. That's all I need to know about the fundamental necessity of males and females which quickly evolved the appropriate traits to perpetuate and nurture their species. That said, there have been homosexual creatures for as far back as we can tell. c. 1-5% of almost all living creatures are homosexual. (see Bruce Bagemihl's mighty academic work 'Biological Exuberance'). As for the illusion of transgender I think your summation is accurate, rooted as it is in the bio-psychological, bio-sociological necessities of life. As a parent and grandparent all I see is 1. yet another manifestation of criminal child abuse and neglect, even paedophilia, 2. profound sociological dysfunction on a grand scale, coupled with 3. a power grab by males who are somehow convinced that being a female gives them more of what they feel they lack (aka a psychological developmental issue that needs to be addressed in those ways). You can't win track events as a male? Simple, just become a woman and you'll out compete the field by dint of your stronger physiological characteristics and you'll get the gold medal that being a bloke was out of your reach. Well, there is no equality in reality, we all have different abilities and characters. Shoving the weaker people out of the way to get your psychological needs met is downright anti-social. Society needs to get its head screwed back on right!