Is there another motivation for christian belief?

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Christianity gives dumb people the right to be as smart as scientists without having to do all that difficult brain work at the university. All they have to do is read a couple of chapters in The Book of Genocide and they are all Nobel Laureates.

Christianity , especially fundamentalist Christianity , gives powerless people personal powers such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and healing hands without having to get a degree in medicine or political science , or learning to actually speak a real language such as Mandarin.

Religion (almost all religion)  gives men who are basically losers the right to feel superior to at least one person. His wife. Even if she is smarter, stronger, and actually runs things around their home.

So in other words, without the crass sarcasm, you're saying that Christianity is empowering.  I think you would be right in that, and that would count as a benefit.

Well , I have witnessed this many times when I was lurking around pentecostal churches. People read a few simple passages, learn a few ritualistic behaviors , and they are smarter than any secularist scientist, politician, professor. Handymen and barbers empowered to feel superior to PhDs is not actually a benefit to society but perhaps to them personally.