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Kane: So far as why people choose to become religious, this varies from person to person - but nobody turns because the doctrines are fact. As I have already covered, people may want a new set of positive (and negative) rules to follow for whatever their own reasons, but they can achieve nothing that cannot be obtained through self discipline and rational thought (apart from the mystical but redundant - often damaging - elements that go with it). I'm not really interested in having a load of God botherers on the couch, since the concept is so wholly misguided.
Freud also spoke of religion as an illusion, and maintained that it is a fantasy structure from which man must be set free if he is to grow to maturity.
I have also already expressed thoughts on the wrong connection with political movements.
What do you want me to back up my statements with, Homer Simpson's calculated document that God does not exist?
It is interesting that I am now being challenged to close arguments about the non-existence of the divine, and it is a testament to how far this thread has come.
And I don't have a particular fondness for arguing, but this isn't going to be whacko day so somebody has to bring gravity to the situation.
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