For many cases, people want to be slaves. They want to release responsibility to a person or a mythology. If something good happens, then the good deity did it. In Orthodox Judaism, for example, the membership is fully reliant on the religious leader. Want to know if a new brand of Ice Cream is ok to buy? Ask the Rav. Want to know if you should marry someone specific? Ask the Rav. Want to know which electric shaver to buy? Ask the Rav. It ends up transferring all choice (we will leave the deterministic model out of this for now), to someone or something.
On the opposite, if something bad happens, then it's time for a long begging session. Or maybe you deserved it. Maybe you did something a long time ago that came to haunt you. It must be your fault, because your master is a good master and would not do anything to intentionally harm you.
To take control of your life and reject that you need to be a slave to a deity or a man is very freeing. But once you do that, the other slaves go "Hey, man. C'mon back. It's fine here. The Master gives us free Kool-Aid."
I'll pass!
On the opposite, if something bad happens, then it's time for a long begging session. Or maybe you deserved it. Maybe you did something a long time ago that came to haunt you. It must be your fault, because your master is a good master and would not do anything to intentionally harm you.
To take control of your life and reject that you need to be a slave to a deity or a man is very freeing. But once you do that, the other slaves go "Hey, man. C'mon back. It's fine here. The Master gives us free Kool-Aid."
I'll pass!
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
