RE: Why Do People Need Religion?
November 7, 2015 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2015 at 2:29 pm by Mermaid.)
A few things.
Ego: We are God's creation. God created the earth and the animals and all living things, and gave us domain over them all. (Oh, yeah, and by the way, at the end of the day, he also created the heavens and stars and shit, in like an hour). We are the center of the universe, and we didn't evolve from no goddamn monkeys. God made us, we are SPECIAL.
Death: We can't accept that people die and turn into worm food. We have to have an afterlife because death can't be the end of it. Hence the eternal soul thing. Nobody really dies. When their body dies, we will see them again. This is the part that makes me envy religious people most. I wish I could believe that, death of people and pets that I love would be so much easier to handle if I could rationalize that I would see them again.
Magic: When something is too complicated to understand, magic happens. God created it. It's easier to say that than to learn the complexities of genes and proteins and ecology and molecules and planets and physics.
Parenting: It's easier to let someone else take the reins and control a person's fate. Therefore, The Lord is everyone's Daddy. You need to turn your life over to him and relax. He's got your back.
Ego: We are God's creation. God created the earth and the animals and all living things, and gave us domain over them all. (Oh, yeah, and by the way, at the end of the day, he also created the heavens and stars and shit, in like an hour). We are the center of the universe, and we didn't evolve from no goddamn monkeys. God made us, we are SPECIAL.
Death: We can't accept that people die and turn into worm food. We have to have an afterlife because death can't be the end of it. Hence the eternal soul thing. Nobody really dies. When their body dies, we will see them again. This is the part that makes me envy religious people most. I wish I could believe that, death of people and pets that I love would be so much easier to handle if I could rationalize that I would see them again.
Magic: When something is too complicated to understand, magic happens. God created it. It's easier to say that than to learn the complexities of genes and proteins and ecology and molecules and planets and physics.
Parenting: It's easier to let someone else take the reins and control a person's fate. Therefore, The Lord is everyone's Daddy. You need to turn your life over to him and relax. He's got your back.
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