I’d like to believe that one day in the future humankind will “grow up” to a point that there is no need for religion. Why do people need that crutch?
It is in my experience that people seeking religion feel like they are missing something in their life. It just happens that their picked religion fills what ever imaginary gap they had.
Then there’s the group of kids that had something horrible happen in their life and they’ve used religion to cope with it.
Next up is the group that are assholes their entire life. Spending their time stealing or whatever. When they find religion they change their ways.
What do all these groups seek? God? I don’t think so. I think it’s acceptance. Maybe they had some bad child hood. Some people just need that feeling in their life. Someone to tell them they love them and that even though they are a fuck up, everything going to be okay.
The unfortunate thing is by the time you figure out that you wasted a significant part if you life giving your time and money away to some false prophet, you’re dead.
It’s the uneducated, noncontributing religious hypocrites that really bother me. Plus the fact that they think they found something that I haven’t and it’s their personal duty to enlighten me. All the while they are likely to be wasting their time worshiping a false god that was ripped off from many other religions 2000 years ago in an act to control the people.
I laugh in school when they teach roman and Greek mythology and tell people how funny it is that these “gods” were once worshiped. As if those gods were less real then the one true god, Jesus Christ.