A reason to believe?

[KichigaiNeko]

Here are 4 good reasons to believe:

1. Freedom is scary. The freedom to decide how you want to live, to choose your own ethics, to make your own judgements, is just too frightening to contemplate. Much better to believe in a God and follow a holy scripture. Be one of God's sheep, and go with the rest of the flock.

2. You don't want to die. Of course you don't. So its much better to believe that you're actually immortal, and that a place in Heaven awaits you. You'll sleep much better after you start believing in an afterlife.

3. Feeling superior is nice. Everyone wants to feel that they're better than someone else. Believe in God and you can consider yourself SAVED. Award yourself 1,000 kudos and look down your nose at those unfortunate non-believers (they're gonna burn).

4. Thinking is tough. If you're an atheist then you'll probably try to understand difficult material like science, or maths or analytical philosophy- atheists think that kind of stuff helps them to understand the world. But you really don't need to strain your brain at all. Become religious and all of the important answers get handed to you on a plate. No need for serious thinking ever again.

All of the above is something I would expect to hear from an infant. So this could also be used to confirm that "believers" are nothing more than unevolved, dependant, selfish children that are addicted to their childhood notion of "Daddy will fix it" ?hock: