If you mean, has a sense of the presence of the deity of the particular faith that briefly deceived me ever managed to make me happy? No.
Has the coincidental fact that it brought people together in the right place at the right time to make certain events in my life go a little better than they otherwise would (when things were really, REALLY shitty according to some apparently very awkward god's divine plan)? Yes. But it's nothing the secular community couldn't have done with more people and resources, and probably would have lasted longer and been of greater benefit if it had been by secularists.
Has the coincidental fact that it brought people together in the right place at the right time to make certain events in my life go a little better than they otherwise would (when things were really, REALLY shitty according to some apparently very awkward god's divine plan)? Yes. But it's nothing the secular community couldn't have done with more people and resources, and probably would have lasted longer and been of greater benefit if it had been by secularists.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
