DESPARATE NEED

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We've certainly had our share of the Christian set here, and now, of late, an influx of Muslims. They have in common, of course, an unquestioning adherence to dogmatic belief.

I am interested in knowing what compulsion creates the need to believe. Why do people feel the need to believe? What powerful motivation leads to the sort of desparate need to believe implicit in blithely accepting absurdities and contradictions in one's doctrinal canon?

Why do people need, so badly, to believe?

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bookmark (I want to know, too)

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Just goes to show you know P. T. Barnum Never Did Say:
"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"

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Mebbe we'll get a nibble, long about tomorrow sometime . . . kinda late where i'm at, i won't be up to watch the pot come to a boil . . .

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Gosh, Set. I'm not at all blithe about religion.

Pizza, yes. Saunas, yes. Vacations, yes. Etc, yes.

I was perfectly happy being an atheist.

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Husker, who is Grace Rich Mullins?

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The compulsion for me is that I have been blessed enough to live\breath\experience God in my life many times.

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Setanta wrote:

Husker, who is grace - Rich Mullins?

put some punctuation in there

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Alos, my religious beliefs can hardly be described as disparate.

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< Just watching>

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neologist wrote:

Alos, my religious beliefs can hardly be described as disparate.

My name ain't Alos, and ain't nobody here called yer beliefs disparate.

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Maybe it isnt a need per say..

but being raised where , that thought process is common place.

One grows up thinking / or being programmed to think that they too should have such a common thought process that , with out it, it leaves them feeling less than , and so they fill that void as everyone else around them did while they were growing up..

nuts dont fall far from the tree...

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One day a while back in the days of a few heated battles I was wondering what would really happen when there would be that influx of Muslims that paled the Christians.

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Thanks, Wolf Woman . . .

Neo, try to play along here . . . i'm alleging that the need to believe may be a product of desparation, not that the belief itself is desparate. You know damned well i don't think that highly of the substance of religious belief.

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Well, Husker, we got 'em in spades now, and when it comes to full, bull-goose loonies, them Muslim boys takes a back-seat to no one . . .

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shewolfnm wrote:

nuts dont fall far from the tree...

don't make me laugh - back that up with some stats please Laughing

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ramen

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oops..

my ramen was supposed to follow set..

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I dont know if I can give you stats..

but I can give you the mental picture I have when explaining why I think religion is 'engrained"

Churches , in my opinion and experience ONLY.. have been full of mother - children- grandchildren of the same family.

Following my earlier post.. that was where the
"nuts dont fall far from the tree" statment came from..

and.. no.. dont go on about your nuts.. Laughing

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Setanta wrote:

neologist wrote:
Alos, my religious beliefs can hardly be described as disparate.

My name ain't Alos, and ain't nobody here called yer beliefs disparate.

Yer topic is so popular there ain't no time to edit posts. I should have used spell check

As you should have before you confused me with the word desparate.

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