(October 23, 2016 at 8:59 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:(October 23, 2016 at 6:56 am)purplepurpose Wrote: I met alot of people who practice religion not so much out of fear but because they believe they are becoming more caring because of it and less egotistical. And because of such perfect improvement they believe that there is a God.
If people believe they need religion to be more caring, they lack empathy, that is all.
Certainly for some theists like people like Drich that is the case.
For others it may be that they have empathy but they think it comes from religion when it doesn't. They worry without their faith in God they would be heartless. When in reality if they have a heart with God they have a heart without God. And maybe they'll not only have a heart on the inside without God, but maybe they'll also be better at expressing it on the outside if they're one of those theists that does care about people but has bigoted beliefs and a funny way of showing it because of their stupid fucking fundamentalist upbringing and indoctrination.