Question

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A lot of it comes down to choosing between wanting to know what is true or settling for what feels comfortable. If one doesn't make a genuine effort towards the former, it seems very easy to slip into the latter.

When beliefs are very vague, often unfalsifiable, and don't actually contradict reality, it's easy to cling on to them. It's also easy to support incorrect beliefs due to confirmation bias, the placebo effect, pattern spotting and reliance on emotional reasoning.

The fact that people from different religions, worshipping different gods, can be totally convinced they are having very real experiences with beings that can't all actually exist (so they claim) shows that either:

1) There's many of these gods after all

2) There's one God but it's fucking with everyone

3) It's fully possible to have all the symptoms of a relationship with a God but actually be imagining it all