Maybe some people need religion, like some people need chemotherapy?
When healthy, no one should get chemotherapy. It's just not good for the body. But when someone is sick, chemotherapy might be a good treatment. So maybe some people really need religion? And reasoning is not good for them?
Ideas?
cadisney , being sick is not something we should be judgemental about.
We should try to heal the sick. And do not put labels.
Maybe, but people who legitimately, inherently need it are few and far between, I bet.
A better analogy than chemotherapy would be some hypothetical drug that can cure a rare disease but is habit forming. People who don't need the drug and start taking it anyway eventually DO need the drug.
For instance, a lot of people ground their morals in their religion (or at least claim to) they say they would become a menace to society at large if they stopped believing in their religion. But what if they had never believed in a surveillance camera in the sky? What if from a young age they had been simply been encouraged to go with their natural empathy? I think most of them would still be moral people then.
They only need religion to maintain morality because religion has taken over their morality.
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