If god exists he/she is responsible for billions of deaths and most war should be imprisoned not worshiped. If god doesn't exist then all of those deaths were because humans didn't understand disease and were assholes who needed an excuse to kill others or steal their land.
I mean either you're praying to a narcissistic psychopath or you're reinforcing millennia of myth of which it would be just as valid to pray to Harry Potter.
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You don't pray because it is the rational thing to do. You pray because you feel the need to. You need a structure or a construct, even an imagined on, around which you can make sense of the countless senseless things happening around you. The easiest choice is perhaps religion.
Spongebob
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Dec 9, 2018
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PS: I have never really prayed, but that's my reasoning why someone would do it.
From a cosmic perspective individual organisms are near worthless. They were born to die—that’s what they are supposed to do. It’s the PROCESS of life that has value. Identity with the overall process and “You” will be immortal.
Pain has an important role in the functioning of our bodies—without pain we could not survive. So far as mental anguish, maybe that is a message that a person needs to take action or resolve conflicting or untrue thoughts.
We should pay attention to pain and anguish and be glad for its presence IMO.
WilliamFleming
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Dec 9, 2018
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Yes. The lack of personal responsibility within religion bothers me.
RandyMoose
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Dec 9, 2018
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Correct. Obviously, it's the latter of the two, as I suspect you already knew.
Lucifer
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Dec 9, 2018
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Yes but assuming some people truly believe in a deity? Stockholm syndrome combined with fear of being abandoned by something that doesn't exist.
@DragonDust Exactly. Very aptly put.
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