(January 7, 2024 at 5:12 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: [...]
it seems like looking up to such an imaginary being, a supreme being, is a way for humans to not only escape reality, but to try to get away from how reality/nature/science work or dictate things as well as avoid things that are true just because those people can't just accept the reality of things, and want some way to get out of it, sometimes desperately.
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Of course very religious people don't believe they're escaping reality; they just think there is more to reality than the materialists perceive.
But from an atheist perspective, yes, of course. Many aspects of religion serve as an attempt to evade reality.
Many atheists are happy to tell you that the universe is a cold hard place that doesn't care about you, facts don't care about your feelings, you're really a zero in the cosmic scale of things. Christians on the other hand think that God the Father is the foundation of all being, and his son is the Logos, the meaning and logic of reality, and both of them love you. Even if you're a poor sick loser, you're still a cherished part of the great whole.
So that will seem to atheists like a fantasy to avoid facing facts.
