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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because most people, even highly educated ones, struggle with confronting the idea of death. Religion provides comforting stories that assuage those anxieties about our own mortality and the mortality of the ones we love.

For me, I find more comfort in the idea that there is no overarching meaning or plan or design than the thought that there is some megalomaniacal supernatural being demanding my worship or else I’ll be cast into hell.

But I understand needing the comfort of the stories. Life is hard and painful and completely unfair. It is also beautiful. [/quote]

OP here -- thanks.  This does somewhat explain how some intelligent people can be religious, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Even if people had our knowledge 2,000 years ago, maybe some of them still would have made up comforting stories and some of them would have believed the stories, just as they do today.[/quote]

To the OP: as I’ve had religion do some very real damage in my life, I have been on a quest to truly understand to the best of my ability how good, kind, educated people can believe…sometimes in harmful ideas that damage others and humanity at large. 
 Although I find it somewhat ironic, science explains god belief 100%.  It can ALL be explained through neuroscience and the study of psychology. Indoctrination into any belief or belief system is incredibly easy to do to humans that are programmed for survival. Religion answers questions that provoke fear and assuage those fears. It’s actually quite a simple premise. [/quote]

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