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Taking god out of the equation makes everything so much more simple to understand.  Some good and bad things happen by chance; some happen based on human intervention.  There's no invisible entity to blame or thank and there's no eternal reward for believing in it.  That's the hardest part for people to accept and the main reason that belief in god persists.[/quote] I agree, you have to contort your thoughts so much to make any god theory fit with the world we live in.  I think the idea persists though because people just can't accept that their lives with all its problems, is all their is.  We want some sort of reward for being good. [/quote]

Belief in God is a matter of faith.  I don't believe anyone will ever prove or disprove the existence of God.  I happen to believe in a loving Creator, but I can understand that some people just don't buy it.  It does sound a little crazy, right? But I look at this world and all the craziness that we just accept as the way things are, the lies we accept as truths, and I think- it isn't any crazier to believe in God.  It isn't crazier to believe that the purpose of life is to love and serve others because God loves us and calls us to service.  [/quote]

Belief in the afterlife is a matter of faith too -- and a matter of hope that you will never die.  I think that is a main reason why so many people manage to continue to believe in God despite all the evidence to the contrary (e.g. God not helping at times we really need him).  Another reason is that in our culture, having faith in God is acceptable - even desirable.  When educated, well-spoken people talk about their faith, they are  taken seriously -- at least outwardly.  It's a social convention.  If fact, you're not taken seriously unless you have faith in a less and less likely god.

That's changing, however, as fewer people have or keep their faith in unseen, capricious gods.  Young people especially are less and less religious, suggesting that in a couple of generations,the action of proudly expressing one's "faith"  as if it is desirable to believe in something unseen, will wane.[/quote]

Do you believe people are continuing to seek out a spiritual life, though? Only without a deity?[/quote]

Not PP, but yes, pretty much... people are interested in meaning in their life. We are apes that seek meaning and pattern. If you don't believe in God and you don't belive in the Divine Word or such, [b]then you have to construct meaning for yourself.[/b]  Religion is one way that people seek meaning.  Science and art are other ways to seek meaning. [/quote]

I'd just levee out the "have to" and say "then you naturally construct meaning for yourself.  I think it's natural to contract meaning and religion was the way we did it when we had less information about the natural world.[/quote]

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