Aqueous Id;3104494]This is not directed to you since it's a matter of belief. But for the benefit of others I would observe that you may have expressed the psychological rationale for belief in God very candidly here. This attitude reflects the child's need to be loved by a parent. Remove the parent, and the child becomes orphaned. Notice I'm not saying this is childish behavior - we all are children of our parents regardless of physical or emotional age. But we all feel empathy for abandoned children, and - depending on the state of our mental health - fear for ourselves, or the inner or once-child which at some point in life could comprehend the pain of separation or abandonment. I think this need to find an ultimate parent at the dawn of human existence is the deep psychological force that perpetuates religions so long after literacy has made them obsolete.
I like on how you analyzed . Us the believer have our parents even they are far away , we have hopes and a sense of security and can be happy by believing that.
You folks at the state in life over ( example) 15 years old become aware and your parents are not away but they are death and you believe you are orphans , you lost your hope . So you live as orphans believing only in yourselves, so you struggle to be happy and find satisfaction in material things
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But you also know that there is nothing new or magic about that. People have been teaching peace and compassion throughout history. Besides, for all of the words in the Bible, only a small fraction have much to with compassion. But of course if religious people were really serious about helping others they would spend all of their time doing just that and all religion would vanish from the face of the earth. So what are they actually doing? Worrying about their eternal salvation? Isn't that selfish? Oh I forgot: some selfishness is exempt.
Yes, we the week people are struggling for compassion from the strong so that they will not use us to fight their games , Every so often a person rises and cry for justice for all. (I am not sure that person will come out of the elite and powerful,). So what we do , we cry out to God for a Savior , by crying out we join forces of the same spirit and become united, and we can demand compassion and justice from the powerful aristocrat and he will understand our suffering, hopefully he will change, This is how education b of both sides increases and we become more human to each other .
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If that were true there would be no schools, hospitals, orphanages or public services in Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Delhi, or Beijing. There would only be anarchy and looting on the streets as every person took for him or herself. So what's wrong with that picture? Don't you understand that the opposite is true? That we are naturally provided a complex set of tools to work for the survival of the human race? For all of the hope Jesus supposedly brings to the faithful why are Christians so cynical about the natural state of the human mind? What peace of mind is to be gained by casting human beings as selfish and evil? Here the only possible benefit is sanctimony, something to counteract low self-esteem. Better is to shrug off the worst modes of religious thinking and adopt a positive attitude, one which believes in helping others because it is a naturally decent thing to do - not because the primordial parent is telling us to do so under penalty of cruel and unusual punishment. We are free to look out for others because that's our nature. If we're living outside of that nature, then we're in a disordered state of mind. Shit happens. But there are often plenty of ways to fix what's broken. And then there are just some percentage of people who are damaged beyond repair. The idea, then, would be that each functioning human being do what he or she can to minimize further damage. If you notice, Jesus doesn't figure into this at all. This is all just common sense. If we want to reduce the damage, then we need to stop patronizing people, undermining their dignity and laying guilt trips on them. The best thing for reasoning Christians to do, then, is to abandon religion, roll up your (plural) sleeves and start being part of the solution.[/QUOTE]
Let me go back to my scenario Does the powerful feel you pain , education or about your orphans , I don't believe so, He prefers uneducated people or orphans because he can control them, Coming back, we the poor peasant cried out to God and from Him comes our unification of spirit and we try to be compassionate to each other because we know misery. We demand and build schools , hospitals, orphanates and other help.
I noticed you saying " Jesus is not part in improving condition " You believe in social evolution so do I. Remember we come a long way evolving socially . One thing that brought the early society was religion , and religion have something to do with God . So the word God is our beginning of social evolution , be it for Jews , Christians , Hinduism , Islam and on .. Now that we are in the modern era we are smart we want exclude the word God , and we want to say we did it , with out God