Do you find it a bit daggy when well known people, or anyone really, get to a senior age and then find God or Jesus or whatever?
I read an article today about Anthony Hopkins and how he wasn't religious and then thought life without religion was empty so he found God. (I won't link the article. If you're interested you can find it)
I mean Mr. Hopkins no disrespect, he's a great actor, but really, I find people, for whom the Grim Reaper is a lot closer than decades ago, getting religious at that time of life, just a bit tacky and, frankly, kind of cowardly, especially when they spill it out in the press. To me, if you get older and feel Grim coming down the road and you want to rush into God's embrace, then keep it to yourself. Ok, I'll probably get roasted for saying that, but it is how I feel.
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I think it harkens back to evolution and ourt animal instincts to be a part of a group to insure better survival. As people get older, if they are nto a part of a group, they feel a lot more insecure. Back in teh hunter fatherer days, if old people weren't a part of a group, then they had nobody to take care of them, so it may be hardwired for sumpe eople instinctually to be a part of a group so they are taken care of as they get older.
Unfortunately, religion is the primary way to join a group that provides a sense of community and belonging (which is/are the only pisitive aspects religion really has to offer).
It isn't just Pascal's wager working on them when they get older. It's a bit mroe complicated than that.
snytiger6
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Oct 31, 2018
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the older i get, the less tolerant i am of the idea that i need an imaginary friend. there ARE atheists in foxholes, no matter how the saying goes. i am sorry for mr. hopkins. he IS a great actor and not an idiot either; i don't know what makes people go for the gods. what @bierbasstard has said i have known for a while (not the quotations, just the struggle and all that) and he is correct about aa and its god-based philosophy. that could well have contributed to mr. hopkins' reversion.
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