God and Religion will always be around

Posted by: intsiksiomai on: April 27, 2020

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God and Religion will always be around, not because of pantheistic world view.  It’s because God fills any VOID or lapse in our INTELLECT and EMOTION.  Humans start off asking what is thunder, why is there rain, why do we get sick?   And most humans cannot live with not knowing.  Our greatest gift is our greatest curse.  Curiosity brought humanity to where we are, information age, artificial intelligence, cellphones, satellites, rockets… but the same desire for knowledge make us very uneasy with things that we still don’t know.   That’s why we created GOD who knows everything that we don’t know.    The less a human knows, the more his god knows.  The more a human knows, the less his god knows.

Humans are compassionate people.  We comfort others who lost their loved ones with an afterlife that we are never even sure of.  The only sure thing of afterlife we will be is carbon, we turn into carbon. Yet we fill our misery, our helplessness,  with GOD to comfort us.  When someone has tragedies in life, they also tend to “find” god.  Women with no significant other also tend to be “in love” with god.  God fills our emotional holes, and rather than finding the solution or living with pain, we tend to prefer the easy way out, the sedative pill called GOD.

Religion,  is the organized community with god/s as the center.  Religion has always filled the void and gaps that any government cannot provide.  If a state cannot afford hospitals and medicine, the state tends to have more churches to substitute healthcare with god through hope.  If communities tend to be fragmented and directionless, churches provide the socialization and sports & hobbies, for people to have a sense of belongingness.  Remember hierarchy of human needs of Abraham Maslow,  BELONGINGNESS is a basic human need, next to physiological and security&safety, Love and Belongingness.   In some cases,  church also serves like a Chamber of Commerce for business and salespeople, a dating platform for socially awkwards, a charity platform, and even a psychotherapist replacement or marriage therapists replacement for countries with no professionals.

In advanced countries in Europe (West and North), there are really professionals in medical community to address psychotherapy needs, there are football clubs, sports clubs, dance lesson clubs, social clubs, hospitals, medicine, book clubs, elderly clubs. That’s why their churches have turned into museums and concert halls.    For us here in 3rd world, church organizations will still be very popular as long as government and private organizations have not fulfilled all social and medical needs of people.