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Originally Posted by 81MC
Almost life as quality of life increases, the need to have a higher meaning diminishes. It isn’t exactly surprising that when life is great, all your needs are met, you’re safe from other members of society, and you don’t risk starvation if the weather sucks,, that you don’t pray for some help.
Isn’t there an actual term for where failures are performed to be unavoidable or no fault of your own, while success is perceived to be the result of to it own actions? When is the last time these nations actually faced real threat en masse? Of course there’s no god, the standard of life we lead is from our own hard work, not divine intervention. We can make the obvious assertion about religious folks, without any of the strife of those who are.
Now if life was relatively hopeless, there was no future to look forward to, we were generally brutally poor and the crops failed again...I can certainly see why someone would need both a higher being to rationalize the sufferings of life with, and something, anything, to keep society from turning into anarchism.
We are living as easy as has ever been known to man. Far and away, the standard of life anyone posting on this message board enjoys is better than all of everyone, ever. It’s insanely easy for us to live. Might be harder for a Nigerian orphan who might get to die at 50 from AIDS to come to terms with that being the sole meaning of existence.
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Indoctrination and lack of education are the biggest factors. Don't indoctrinate a person into religion, give them a quality education, and pretty much zero of them will think any religion sounds rational or reasonable if introduced to them at like 25. You have to get them young to steep them in the irrational to get it to take.
Your take is more an explanation of one of the reasons why religion works and not why it's necessary.