(July 3, 2017 at 9:01 am)Die Atheistin Wrote:(July 3, 2017 at 8:50 am)YouOnlyLiveTwice Wrote: Well, they tend not to be as insistent as other religious people, from my experience. It's less about seeing their opinion as "better", but a matter of them needing to rely on personal fantasies (in this case, self-admitted fantasies) to provide emotional or mental security for themselves. A kind of placebo effect, if you will.But why are they using a particular religion as an aplacebo effect? Why aren't they trying more religions,in the free world there's no law that says they can't. They can even try having more religions at once if they want.
Regardless, I'm fine with people who want to believe in certain things for personally inspirational purposes or as coping mechanisms. Where I take issue is when they try to pass it off as fact and/or when it blatantly comes into conflict with reality and is still maintained. At that point, it becomes an undeniable delusion.
Well they rarely start from scratch. Most just happen to be born into a family/community which promotes the very religion they go on decide is only correct one.
