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Quote by: Fonceai  The people choose what they want to believe.
Your problem is with thinking there is any "actual evidence" in this matter.
For other people, their observations, passions, and opinions are "actual evidence", and they will base their beliefs accordingly. |
No. Their observations, passions and opinions are observations, passions, and opinions. Evidence is something else entirely. It's factual information verified by real world events (or in this case objects).
People believing X to be true doesn't evidence X as true.
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In the meantime, consider that when given a choice between a kind voice of passion and acceptance and a harsh voice of denial and emptiness, people choose the kind voice based on how it makes them feel.
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This evidences people will accept what makes them feel better, not necessarily what's true. It evidences that people can be manipulated to believe falsehoods.
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In this case, the John Frum movement makes people feel good...
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Feeling good doesn't trump truth nor does the truth need to be obfuscated with happy lies for people to lead happy lives. People can gain the benefits of religion... any religion... without the unsupported claims / outright lies of religion. Cargo cults are an excellent example; The people want someone to bring them cargo and take care of them. They don't need supernatural entities for that.