why do people run from the truth?

Because it frightens them, while belief allows them to fantasize that all is well. Truth is simply the way things are in reality, and not simply based on the whims of imagination. I never heard of anyone fighting over the fact that 1+1 = 2, as that is a fact, but people can and will fight, and maybe kill each other, over a belief, as it is based on lack of fact, lack of reason, and comes from the lower parts of the mind, the ignoring, bestial, unreasoning part..

To realize what is truly right you need to know things for fact, but if you want to avoid reality and excuse bad behaviour, you need belief.

I ask myself the same question all the time!

"Why do people run from the truth, and hide their heads in a book of mythology?" Why do some people prefer subservience to a fictitious character, than looking at the world as it is?" "Why are theists so scared of the fact that this life is all we get?" "Why can't people deal with the facts about our world, without inventing an imaginary sky dictator?"

why do people run from the truth, into religion?

Sadly it is the child abuse of forcing very young children to be christians!!

Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.

They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!!

Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!!

Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.

Sadly Christians are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!!

1+1+1=3

1+1+1 =/= 1

They do.... in all things except religion.

And religion, by definition is faith without proof.

Religion is that little, or big back pack some people never really get rid of...even when they are adults.

Even as adults they still believe in the fairy tales and folk lore of a group of stone age starving goat herders.

Amazing, isn't it? Sky daddies, talking snakes, carnivores on a ship that eat straw, burnt offerings, nasty bearded desert gods..... and a dude dead floating up into the sky.

Amazing, isn't it??

Because the Truth sheds light on the way things are and the way it should be. God Bless all

Because the truth hurts and its a human failing to avoid anything that hurts.

Because it's more comfortable for them to just believe in their religious ideas.

Many people who are raised to believe in supernatural beings simply seem to be unable to let go of their faith, regardless of the fact that there's no evidence for anything supernatural, and we have the scientific evidence to explain the universe and how we came to be.

batgirl2good - "You are deluded if you think YOU know it all."

No one is claiming to know everything.

We're simply saying that, within the combined knowledge of humanity, we have the natural explanation for almost everything that exists. We haven't learned *everything* yet, but we've reached a point where we understand that there's no need to believe in anything supernatural to explain anything about the universe.

No, I'm running toward the truth......look out (low tree branch).

There are a lot of answers to that question, I would just like to add my two cents worth; to the first answerer, rotflmao, where do you come up with this stuff? can you show me any examples in the history of anything that demonstrate this to be true? I thought not.