Religious people can't seem to imagine happiness without god, just like heroin addicts can't imagine happiness without their drug...and yet hundreds of millions of atheists lead happy lives, bereft of a need or even a desire for a god’s confirmation and forgiveness.
Are religious people simply to scared to let go of their crutches?
2007-07-26 23:34:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's funny how people prove they can't or won't answer the question by picking on some other part of it like "hundreds of millions of atheists"...getting bogged down in statistics is a good way to escape reality isn't it :-)~
2007-07-26 23:47:43 · update #1
That is a very valid viewpoint.
However, there is one important difference... Heroin actually exists and does something positive for its addicts.
Pertaining your last question;
Yes. The entire concept of religion is based on fear. Whereas, heroin addicts have a physical addiction based mostly on chemical needs. Of the few heroin addicts that I have known, most of them were intelligent. Their psychological predilection to addiction was caused in no small part by the very existence of religion and the religious people who ***-up the world. As such, it was easier for the heroin addicts who survived to beat their addictions than it will ever be for victims of brainwashing and stupidity to let go of their crutches.
2007-07-26 23:50:05 · answer #1 · answered by Aleph Null 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all..there are not hundreds of millions of atheists in the world except and where their religious freedoms have been jeopordized by a government and let me ask you if you ever want to go visit North Korea and then tell me how happy those people are...so no...a religious person is not better off without their faith but..I can venture to say that any heroin addict will tell you if given a choice they would wish they had never touched the stuff so your reasoning is flawed. ~J~
2007-07-27 06:44:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a world view without God, everything is just brain chemicals, i.e. drugs that make you feel good. There is no reality behind the happy feelings other than a drug fix. Evolution, a meaningless process, provides drugs in the brain that give good feelings for having certain thoughts. So the atheist world view is based upon a drug addiction; that is how evolution controls us. It is a world view based upon slavery to drug addiction.
But in a world view that includes God, there can be reality behind feelings. Love can be real and not just some shot of dope. Same with compassion and love of justice and every other ideal we call noble.
2007-07-27 06:40:14 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
why is it that atheists don't need a god, and why is it that some people do need god.
i think a lot of people that do believe in a god would probably get cold turkey if you took away that part of their life.
2007-07-27 06:41:31 · answer #4 · answered by witchfinder general 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow, an addiction to God, what a concept. You may be on to something.
2007-07-27 06:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by betty o 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if they are, what's it to you?
and what is religion without a god?
2007-07-27 06:39:25 · answer #6 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋