(February 27, 2016 at 7:48 am)abaris Wrote:The life insurance analogy was true for me when I was a child, but it isn't the driver in my faith now as an adult. I am convinced that the supernatural must exist because there are things present in our world that natural processes cannot account for.(February 27, 2016 at 5:32 am)Napoléon Wrote: That's basically what religion is, not just Christianity. A coping mechanism that gives people an excuse not to use their brains.
It's not about an excuse not to use their brains. It's about ultimate security. Feeling protected in life and death, not having to cope with losing loved ones forever, not having to cope with the thought of no longer existing at some point in time.
The ultimate life insurance, if you so will. I guess, that's the major motivator.
An example of this is that we generally accept that 4.5 billion years ago there was nothing living on earth, just dirt rocks and water. Since we know of no natural process that creates life from non-life, there must be some process at work above and beyond the natural, ie the supernatural.
AJ.
