It’s comforting, and that’s what Evangelicals spend alot of their time doing–comforting themselves with great stories that are about them and how they will come out on top in the end.

Ain’t that the truth!

Marx was right: religion is the opiate of the masses. They’re addicted; they need it to feel right; they need it to get them through life, to cope. You’ll look far and wide to find a social institution with such a large percentage of messed-up people where membership is voluntary.

I think this is, in large part, why deconverting is so terribly painful. It’s actually a withdrawal process not dissimilar to withdrawing from a drug: You get comfort and hope from this circular logic for so long that you don’t even know how to compensate or cope on your own. I understand why some people come to the brink and tiptoe backwards – they just can’t face life without the spiritual “highs” and they don’t believe that people can still be happy and fulfilled without religion.

It is just plain ignorance, and this guy is fostering it with his message. He is stuffing a straw man of atheism so he can knock it down with the rest of his message.

I don’t understand how the average Christian can look at this video and see anything “holy” or see “God’s hand” in his words. It is simply an apologetic video that uses a dishonest ad hominem as its main argument. And what is this guy really protecting against anyway? He is the one being dishonest, and yet he would probably feel justified in doing whatever he can in keeping people from “straying” from the faith.

You see, Evangelicals are conditioned by years of steady propaganda and behavior modification to believe in ideas that make little sense of themselves and for which no evidence is given. So, when some guy like this spouts some new theory for why Evangelicals should feel good about themselves, and not feel threatened by atheism or science, and that atheists are actually psychologically-defective and are what they are for no good reason, well, it fits perfectly with everything else that Evangelicals have come to believe. It’s comforting, and that’s what Evangelicals spend alot of their time doing–comforting themselves with great stories that are about them and how they will come out on top in the end.

Marx was right: religion is the opiate of the masses. They’re addicted; they need it to feel right; they need it to get them through life, to cope. You’ll look far and wide to find a social institution with such a large percentage of messed-up people where membership is voluntary.

Christians have set up ophanages, because they know a kid is in gig,big trouble if it has no earthly father who loves it, and only has a Heavenly Father who loves it.

Christians know the Heavenly Father is not going to look after the child, and so set up orphanages to help children with such Father issues.

Oh, wait. Freud has been discredited, and atheism isn’t a mental disorder.

Some religious people, I guess, just can’t believe that some people don’t believe in their God. So they assume its some kind of psychological problem.