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[band_geek_]

So I was justing thinking the other day when things were getting real shitty and I came up with some thoughts. I haven't posted in a while so I figured I'd share them with you all.

So when times get real shitty and nobody loves you (not even your brother Billo), many of us turn to [insert any religious figure here]. So times are tough and

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[biggjr07]

During the medieval ages the fear instilled through religion was used as a tool to keep servants in line, however, like the post above me says, it's more of a comfort than a fear nowadays. Both are very similar in that they result in the same thing but the difference is their main focus. For people to turn to religion for comfort from their problems doesn't necessarily solve anything like you mentioned, however, even if they don't receive any direct divine help they can gain a sense of confidence and comfort which may give them the emotional support needed to help themselves. If people lose hope that they can ever be forgiven or go to a better place when they die it puts them in a despairing state of mind where they never seek to better themselves because there's no point.

Personally, I believe in the possibility of anything that has any sort of basis in science or philosophical logic. I don't know if Jesus was the Son of God, if Mohammad was a genuine profit, or if a "god" actually exists. They haven't been proven, but they also haven't been disproved and any of the possibilities has a logical philosophical argument for it. I would consider it to be ignorant of me to have total faith in one idea without at least considering the possibility that any of them may be true. Although, I must admit, I lean a very very small amount towards christianity...eternal happiness and continuation of your consciousness all for asking for forgiveness, sounds like a sweet deal to me, haha.