God is the great spirit friend

[Faith No More]

The thing that has helped me the most through difficult times is just knowing that I can hold on to God when I go to sleep and God holds me and comforts me. Sometimes it seems like the rest of the world is so foolish and so shallow, but God is always a close friend to me, has never been far away from me, though God has put me through quite a bit.

Sometimes you accidentally give great insight into your motivations for believing in god. It's quite clear from statements such as this that God is simply an invisible security blanket that you refuse to relinquish, and in order to convince yourself that this god is absolutely real you have convinced yourself that others have ulterior motives for not believing in it.

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Faith no more, well overcoming adversity being praiseworthy, patience and resilience being praiseworthy, helping others who are suffering being praiseworthy, certainly won't prove it's the purpose, but it seems to prove it would be a worthy purpose if you believe the praise outweighs the suffering, and it specially helps if you consider the possibility of everlasting peace. I agree learning is not the purpose however, because as you said, we could be given this knowledge through other means.

I'm still not entirely certain I understand what you mean by "praiseworthy," but could you give an example of the praise outweighing the suffering?

And I do believe in everlasting peace, just not in the way I believe your referring to.