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Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
(December 13, 2016 at 6:14 am)pocaracas Wrote: So... you're so desperate to love something, that you'll love an idea.
I don't know about you, but I prefer to love another human being.

It's easier to masturbate to a fantasy, than to understand and accept the perceived limitations and imperfections of reality. Our narcissistic egos tell us, that we deserve more love, than what some other meat-bag - or even a whole bunch of them - can give us. And that our affection, gratitude and admiration is too precious to be entirely wasted on this piece-of-sh*t world and it's highly unsatisfying inhabitants.

But we still need to somehow "vent" those emotions, so we create ideal beings - usually glorified humans, but not exclusively - which have no imperfections, as they're not constrained by reality and are therefore worthy of our most treasured and private feelings of complete adoration, dependence and trust, akin to those an infant instinctively has for a parent.

Similarly - for many people it's preferable to accept the unconditional and total tyranny of an imaginary father-figure, rather than to admit actual complete subservience to other human beings.

Our brains - especially when trained from a very young age - excel at creating and sustaining these kinds of abstract constructs and narratives, in order to preserve our love of self, regardless of circumstances. Deep down, we all still have the infantile instincts, that convince us of our importance, uniqueness and preciousness in the eyes of an all-powerful and enigmatic, yet benevolent and dedicated parent-figure.
And religious frauds spent millennia, learning how to exploit those instincts.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist? - by Homeless Nutter - December 13, 2016 at 7:16 am

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