Guess if you want to believe in something you will and people will pay you for telling them what they want to hear.
I agree.
It is probably the same reason people who believe in homeopathy will also tend to believe in crystal healing and similar unproven therapies. Or why belief in a conspiracy to blow up the twin towers often includes any number of other conspiracies by the government against the public.
Noncritical thinking lends itself to belief in anything you might want to be true. And if you don't require proper evidence, or if you can't properly use the tools of critical thinking to distinguish bad ideas from good ones, you have no reason not to believe want you want to be true. Most of the ideas we discuss on this forum comes down to this.
I was saying that it was our technology that took us to the moon whereas religion could only dream about it.
As an aside, although the moon landing proves that the scientific principles involved are accurate enough to pull off going to the moon and back successfully, I don't think it says anything about whether religion is useful or not. Usefulness should not be a criteria for an idea being right or wrong. I have no problem with religion as an idea, where I have a problem with it is where it tries to impose itself where it does not belong, or where it stands in the way of critical thinking and understanding of the world around us. But that is another topic for another day
