Is God a Replacement for our Dad?
As little kids, we thought our dads were all powerful!. Then we grow older. Is God a replacement for this figure?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My father was the main reason I knew there could be no god.
Slappy_Longarms
Level 7
May 12, 2018
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My y-chromosome donor and this god character of which you speak share absence in common.
NothinnXpreVails
Level 8
May 12, 2018
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Superb. I admire your explanation. X
My dad took off before I was three. I've never been religious so I'm gonna have to say ....at least for me..... no.
Suffolkian
Level 5
May 12, 2018
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Maybe. Fathers in many countries still sell their daughters in marriage, have total control over their lives, make them household maids, so maybe fathers are the template for the idea of a god.
birdingnut
Level 8
May 12, 2018
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Well, that's both depressing and sarcastic.
And probably watch them have sex.
I liked this analogy.
GregGasiorowski
Level 6
May 12, 2018
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very good analogy.
Coercive control at its finest.
My dad was rotten to the core. I often wonder how i got him as a dad. Who did i piss off.
BucketlistBob
Level 8
May 12, 2018
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Same person I did, I guess.
Freud thought so.
farmboy2017
Level 7
May 12, 2018
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Freud did enough dope to kill a small horse.
@DenoPenno He had oral cancer and underwent something like 29 surgeries. Ended up losing his upper palette and had a false one made. Died by self inflicted gun shot.
@farmboy2017 Thanks. I did not know this.
Probably not, as my dad taught me how to shoot, sail, and properly wear a hat.
bigpawbullets
Level 9
May 12, 2018
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I dunno, but it's a very comforting thought to some, to have parent that will never go away, and eventually take you"back home" to some ultimate home with your real parent.
AsAbove
Level 4
May 12, 2018
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Yes, that's the Comfort I was talking about!
That's not comfort. That's believing in fairy tales.
An illusion can be comforting! That's why it persists for so long!
Yeah it’s always been like that, it’s why we are do hardwired to believe something must have created us and watch and protect us, it’s been our life since birth, kind of hard to break out of that spell.
Caseyfritz
Level 4
May 12, 2018
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Not hard to break the spell if you've never been brainwashed. Just the natural state of things. Which is what I wish for future generations.
Mom.
skado
Level 9
May 12, 2018
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Mother nature is a cold bitch.
'Bitch' is hate speech.
Call the thought police, words kill after all.
I never knew my dad, and I never new god..but no
River-david
Level 5
May 12, 2018
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