tweakabelle
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic For a lot of vocal atheists, I think the source of their anger comes much more from unresolved childhood issues with their parents, than it does from a more impersonal source. In that sense, I think they have it completely wrong. It's surprisingly common for the faithful to believe in this sort comforting nonsense. Not that he's exactly flavour of the month any more, but there's always Freud's view that religion is based on an infantile need for a powerful father figure. Like most belief systems and ideologies, religion makes a lot more sense to me when it is seen as fulfilling an individual's emotional needs rather than as an intellectual thesis, as a dispassionate account of the way things are or some kind of Divine revelation ....
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