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Originally posted by Rick Latona
Word.
It's amazing what the human mind can come up with. People used to worhip anything. I bet if I told kids that the stapler on my desk loved them and could grant them eternal salvation for years on end they would absolutely "know in their heart" that it was true.
Boobmaster, have you also come to your own conclusions as to what you should do to earn God's forgivness and salvation or do you go strictly by the book. If you aren't going strictly by the book, don't you think it is funny that you can come up with your own list of right and wrong and believe in your heart that it is right?
That is why we have religion. The human mind has the power to know in their heart that they are right.
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People suck ass. Thats why i hate most of them.
There is a psychologist, Viktor Frankl who pioneered a whole branch of pychology and psychotherapy based on the idea that people have to have a sense of both meaning and purpose in their lives to exist with any degree of contentment and happiness.
In addition to it's help in coping with loss as well as the feared finality of death, religion convienently provides provides both a sense of purpose and life meaning addition the convienently simple answers to incompresensibly complex questions... as long as you are willing to "believe"