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Is this a fair assessment of God, Religion and Belief?

God is a comfort mechanism, for all intents and purposes, it is akin to the doors on a house. If you install doors on a house it is to allow you to feel safe, and comfortable inside your home, regardless of the fact that windows are easier to breach. Well if you have a home invasion this does not mean you will no longer use a door. You more than likely will add things to the door to make it seem more secured.

Religion is a mechanism for social conformity and tribalism. It is akin to a community barbeque. Everyone at a barbeque does not like the same food, or the same discussion topics, but there is something for everyone. Enough to make you feel like part of the group, and validate your role in that group, you belong to something. Now your cousin Vinny may be there, and everyone knows he is a criminal, but he is part of the group, so you overlook his wrong doings.

Belief is a way someone rationalizes a completely irrational notion. For this I will use a child's fear of the dark and boogeyman. I tell my kids it is bot real, I show them it is not real, and yet they refuse to get out of bed if the light is off, do not sleep alone and are genuinely afraid. This fear is induced by a mind extrapolating darkness and feeds into our primal, instinctual survival mechanisms, dark equals predators, and predators equal death.

now these are condensed talking points, I just want to know, is this fair, or do theist feel "attacked" because of these statements.

Update:

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Update 3:

Ignoramus- obviously this IS my assessment of these topics. I am unsurpirsed that you took it as an affront because it was not glorifying your opinions. If you could not make it through the three small paragraphs, how could you have read the bible?

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
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    Sociologically yes, your right. But people need God, real or dreamed up. I believe he is real.

  • 7 years ago

    Read the first 5 words, already know that the answer is negative. This is not a fair assessment. Sounds more like your own opinion, some of which has been shown here like a thousand times. Nothing new.

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