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Why Do People Need Religion?

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Why Do People Need Religion?
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RE: Why Do People Need Religion?
November 6, 2015 at 5:49 am
It seems that every new theist feels obliged to ask the moral question and every atheist the why religion question.

But the answer to that is always the same. Fear of the last frontier. Death, the wish to see ones relatives and friends again in some afterlife. A bonding experience that also can be provided by any secular group. Ideology to make yourself feel exclusive. Can also take on every secular form of ideology.
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Why Do People Need Religion? - by Rebel - November 5, 2015 at 11:05 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by bennyboy - November 6, 2015 at 12:28 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Reforged - November 6, 2015 at 12:44 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Minimalist - November 6, 2015 at 12:53 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by houseofcantor - November 6, 2015 at 1:04 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by ignoramus - November 6, 2015 at 5:20 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 6, 2015 at 5:48 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by abaris - November 6, 2015 at 5:49 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Homeless Nutter - November 6, 2015 at 5:50 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by drfuzzy - November 7, 2015 at 2:32 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by robvalue - November 6, 2015 at 6:04 am
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Mudhammam - November 7, 2015 at 2:12 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by abaris - November 7, 2015 at 2:16 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Mudhammam - November 7, 2015 at 2:22 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Mermaid - November 7, 2015 at 2:27 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Vincent - November 7, 2015 at 2:48 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Ludwig - November 7, 2015 at 2:51 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Mudhammam - November 7, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by LastPoet - November 7, 2015 at 2:59 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by robvalue - November 7, 2015 at 4:09 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by Spooky - November 7, 2015 at 10:31 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by IATIA - November 7, 2015 at 10:36 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by jeebusmubummed - November 21, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by brewer - November 21, 2015 at 5:29 pm
RE: Why Do People Need Religion? - by bennyboy - November 21, 2015 at 6:44 pm

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