(January 7, 2024 at 6:00 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 7, 2024 at 5:28 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: I think I do see your points, but on a certain part of the original post on this topic, I think I should clarify...
Reality is harsh often, and lets a lot of bad things happen to people, which said people do not like. I personally think though that religion and God are ways to get around that to try and be happy. Well, it is one way, but even today, some people are not accustomed to those bad things happening and the harshness of reality.
Though I am also trying to understand things, so to ask...
Would God and religion not be considered a way to say "fuck" you to the negative parts of reality, at the least?
...Even if it is probably not the whole story as to why people tend to try and avoid bad things?
By bad, I am also talking about things that are bad, but can be learned from, used to improve ourselves with, etc. I just don't think there is at least a high amount of people who want to go through bad things even if it can help them. I could be wrong, of course, so do help me understand.
(Bold mine)
That’s quite a different question than the one you originally asked, but I’d still have to say ‘no’.
I’d say that rather than a ‘fuck you’ to bad things, religion is more of a coping mechanism. If it were truly a ‘fuck you’, then believers wouldn’t care when bad things happen to them or others. Religion is a fumbling attempt to deal with why bad things happen, not to shrug them off.
To expand on my answer to your earlier question, the great majority of religions try to cope with and understand nature, not to tell it to go fuck itself.
Boru
I see. Thanks for explaining.
Though on the bolded part, I guess that second question was more so what I was trying to ask, but failed to ultimately address in the initial post for some reason.
