I don't mean this condescendingly. But it occurred to me the other day that one of the reasons why people believe in a god is a certain reluctance to accept that childhood is over. When you are a child, it seems that your parents are omnipotent and however much you mess up, in the end they can mend the shambles, they can - and will - get you out of any problem you might have stumbled into. As you grow up, you gradually realise this is not true. But you are reluctant to admit that some mistakes are final, even fatal, that you can't rely on ultimately getting justice, and so on, up to and including the horror that in the end you will inevitably die. So to keep sane you replace your no longer tenable belief in all-powerful, all-healing parents with a belief in an all-powerful, all-healing god.
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