My defense mechanisms are so deep within me that I don't even know that they are defense mechanisms. I see them as the truth. They guild me. The real world is too much for me to handle. I believe in god because it's a great defense mechanism. It keeps me sane.
2007-09-22 04:06:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Christians know there is someone to provide and take care of them. This gives us peace and comfort, which comes from the trust we have in God and our commitment and faith. There is nothing more powerful than God. That is truth.
2007-09-22 04:41:00 · answer #1 · answered by lana s 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't decide if you are simply a foolish, religious zealot or a mindless agnostic hypocrite. in either case, your claim that religion is a defense mechanism was taken up by Dr. S Freud some years ago. Old news and old theories.
Dr Freud failed to apply his theory to the Judaic God of Israel, wherein God is poised to destroy man.
As for you, I suspect the former and suggest you take your bible bashing to the religious forum. This forum is for rational thought.
2007-09-22 05:52:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dr weasel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah reality is pretty overwhelming in how impersonal it is if you look at it in certain ways. Like if you believe that there IS an external world, the universe is an awfully big and lonely place, and you're pretty insignificant. But if you're solipsistic or an existentialist, you know that YOU as an individual are all that matters philosophically. Don't know where religion fits into this, but try looking at it from that angle.
2007-09-22 05:52:42 · answer #3 · answered by A Posteriori 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too much use of defense mechanism is escaping from reality. Facing the reality is the true measure of one`s ability to cope with the world and with himself thus keeping you sane.
2007-09-22 04:22:17 · answer #4 · answered by maconsolviaa 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It sounds mostly accurate.
The Biblical view is that we in fact know God exists factually. Though that is one of the things I struggled with when comming to believe. So I think belief may be more about trusting.
That which has been created is ordered, intricate, and complex in design.
There is nature and there are things that have been made that nature can not make.
Nature is more ordered, intricate, and complex in design than things that have been made, which nature did not make.
Therefore nature has been created.
Then we must understand purpose.
Ultimately belief relates to the truth.
2007-09-22 09:50:44 · answer #5 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for some it is a defense mechanism, but for some it is their reality...depends whose eyes you look at it from...
if you believe in god because it's a great defence mechanism, then in my opinion you are an atheist, because it's not something that you believe from the heart, it's something that you're making yourself believe...to give you hope, peace, comfort and in your case to give you a false sense of security...
2007-09-22 05:02:17 · answer #6 · answered by $he 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A theory in a greater physically powerful being pertains to the "vast sleep"--loss of existence. And alongside with that, it additionally solutions the question of "what's the which potential of existence". So it particularly is a protection mechanism.
2016-10-05 04:20:37 · answer #7 · answered by hughart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I concur with you on the point that religion serves as a defense mechanism for us, but there are other religions out there that cope with the real world better than christianity. try Buddisim or Taoisim
2007-09-22 04:33:13 · answer #8 · answered by Issa P 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it might be, but i myself never saw it as such. i like my life and my reality (well not always, it happens to me to be depressed too) and still i like to believe there is something far better beyond. or at least some truth. i don't think we seek a skirt to cling to or a warmer home to come to, but we want to know what this whole world is about and why we exist. and if it is a defense mechanism, don't you think it's working pretty well ?
2007-09-22 04:18:28 · answer #9 · answered by narcissa 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in a philosophical and psychological point of view, people tend to seek god because it's the easiest answer to man's complicated questions.
for example:
Question: Why does the sun rise everyday?
Answer: Because god make it rise.
creating god, therefore, serves as the easiest scapegoat of our curiosity.
2007-09-22 06:07:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋