Religion gives people spiritual and emotional fulfillment, nothing more. Some people use alcohol, some use drugs, some use religion to fill the void.
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Religion claims to provide fulfillment. It occupies people seeking fulfillment. That's not the same thing as actually providing anything of value.
I have found my lack of omniscience about the meaning and origins of life and a sense of coherence and comprehensibility about life to be more bearable without all the religious preconceptions.
When you understand that even whatever fulfillment people find in religion exists only in between their ears, then you understand that religion itself is nothing more than a handy metaphor, and entirely dispensable.
mordant
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Jan 13, 2019
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Others use a belief in scientism and materialism.
The only void is that we cannot understand Ultimate Reality with our limited human perspective. But just moment by moment awareness of the staggering implications of reality must inevitably impart a sense of great value to life.
WilliamFleming
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Jan 13, 2019
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@maturin1919 We can not understand what is before us. It is a dazzling darkness of momentous proportions. Conscious awareness brings us to the edge of what can be apprehended using our limited human methods. Beyond our bubble of awareness is ultimate reality, or underlying nature which is the basis for all that there is.
Though we can not detect ultimate reality with our senses, it undoubtedly is there, and the implications for the value of life as conscious beings are enormous. It means that we are infinitely precious, worthy of joy, love and freedom.
This post presupposes that there is a spiritual and emotional void to be filled. Although it seems obvious that a large percentage of Earth's population does have such a void, there are those of us who do not.
evidentialist
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Jan 13, 2019
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Yeah, I know everyone doesn't have a void normally, but in times of sorrow or struggle this is when people can have voids. I just wish people had philosophy and science to rationalize instead of these things that do them no good.
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