In one way or another I think everyone lives to maximize pleasure.
In relation to what you're saying I think the idea seems false and the exact opposite seems true. People who are sick/poor/trapped begin to believe in god/continue believing in god. That's a tendency I think is more common.
There are people who begin to reject god once something bad happens to them but I think they're in the minority.
Relatively I've lived a pretty comfortable life, apart from a short term belief as a result of childhood indoctrination the only time I feel a pull to believe in anything supernatural again is when I go through something traumatic.
Trauma is usually uncontrollable and I think there's an urge to try and gain control via god, superstition, OCD, rituals whatever else.
In relation to what you're saying I think the idea seems false and the exact opposite seems true. People who are sick/poor/trapped begin to believe in god/continue believing in god. That's a tendency I think is more common.
There are people who begin to reject god once something bad happens to them but I think they're in the minority.
Relatively I've lived a pretty comfortable life, apart from a short term belief as a result of childhood indoctrination the only time I feel a pull to believe in anything supernatural again is when I go through something traumatic.
Trauma is usually uncontrollable and I think there's an urge to try and gain control via god, superstition, OCD, rituals whatever else.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
