Becoming religious seems to me not so very different from addiction to drugs or alcohol. Both of those two things can befuddle and delude the mind although they may well help in some situations to get you through.

Religion too is regarded by many including me btw as a delusion although I can see how it may help in some cases, but it wasn’t called the opium of the masses for nothing imo.

I had a friend that became an alcoholic with me in tow and I’m sure drink was almost...

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Theists, are you at all able put yourself into a non believers position? A non believer who does not secretly somehow know your god or know that your scripture as anything other than it seems to be, a book of ancient missives, myths and tales from around the camp fire.

Try to imagine for a moment that the Bible actually does not have any divine evidential value for itself and also try to cast away any ingrained cultural religious indoctrinations. Just for the moment become an atheist,...

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