And non-religious people are also coping (and deluding themselves) by being unbelievers. Non-religious people are afraid of ever being held accountable, so their refusal to believe in a Creator is just the manifestation of their fear of responsibility. They just don't want to be responsible, and so they're afraid of judgement more than they're afraid of death. For this reason, they find comfort in the belief that there is no God - they would exchange the non-existence of God for the existence of death. Death is afterall a good thing for them, it's freedom, without ever being held accountable for your actions in the world. Morally disgusting if you ask me. People ought to be held accountable for their actions.I grew up around a lot of religious people, and still am good friends with one now, and whenever shit happens to him, he goes all hardcore into it, and I of course just see it as his form of coping. He likes the way certain power words sound, and certain ideas makes him feel, so he's just manipulating his feelings with connotative language, and self-elevating beliefs. — Wosret
Yes, death is an ever-present threat to people's psyche, because unlike Socrates, they have not yet realised that the immoral life is not worth living to begin with, and hence, the threat of impiety, and of being immoral, always looms greater than the threat of death. Thus Socrates said "it is not difficult to avoid death gentlemen; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death!"death is an ever-present threat to our psyche — darthbarracuda
happiness — TheMadFool
Self-judgement can be much harsher than the judgement of a benevolent creator. Most theists that I have known, seemed more relieved from their flawed human nature then I am.And non-religious people are also coping (and deluding themselves) by being unbelievers. Non-religious people are afraid of ever being held accountable, so their refusal to believe in a Creator is just the manifestation of their fear of responsibility. They just don't want to be responsible, and so they're afraid of judgement more than they're afraid of death. — Agustino
We don't need delusions to be happy. We don't always lie to ourselves. We do expect the truth as being lied to makes us unhappy. It is only when the truth isn't consoling that we engage in delusional beliefs. We are perfectly happy to lie to ourselves when the truth isn't consoling but others are not allowed to lie to us.I have long held that the world drives us all crazy, and causes us to be deluded, and it has long been noticed that people's feelings get in the way of their accuracy. This is why emotion and reason are so often contrasted, because preference, hope and fear get in the way of things, and we tell ourselves stories to calm down, or feel better when bad unfair stuff happens. — Wosret
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