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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unlike belief in god, there is no reward or punishment associated with belief or disbelief in the easter bunny. [/quote]
But how do you know this to be true?[/quote]

There is Church doctrine on reward and punishment relating to belief in God.  There is no doctrine associated with the Easter bunny -- only baskets filled with goodies.  The easter bunny is a one day a year thing during childhood. In contrast, God lasts a lifetime and beyond.[/quote]

And these "doctrines" were written by men (humans).

stories, folks
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Some stories are true and some are not.  Sometimes this is obvious, especially to adults (Children can be fooled for a while).  What is the likelihood of a bunny delivering candy?  Where and how would the bunny get the candy? How would it get into your house?  When kids are little they don't think about these things -- they are happy to get the candy and they trust what their parents say.

As for God and Jesus - what is the likelihood that a super-being outside of nature could create the world and then send his son, who he loves, to become a human for the express purpose of being tortured and killed in order to save the rest of the people that God creates?

If you're taught this as a child by trusted adults and most of the rest of society seems to agree, it's easy to believe.  For some, it becomes more difficult as they get older and learn more about history and science.   Others continue to believe because the society encourages continued belief and because they find the idea of eternal life that goes along with believing and are fearful of the threat of eternal suffering if they don't believe.  Aside from beliefs about life after death, Some people find great comfort in knowing there is someone looking out for them - some greater being they can appeal to when things in life don't go well  and someone they can thank when things do go their way. [/quote]

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