mrttao
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Most humans need religion, but not all. I am pretty sure there is a genetic aspect to it.This so much. Humans need faith. If you try and remove religious faith all that happens is other things replace it, and most of the time the result is worse than church.
Nietzsche spoke about outgrowing religion and his famous "God is dead" quote. Ironically his quote is one of the easiest ways to tell if someone is a zealot atheist: if they use it when justifying their atheism they probably aren't as smart as they pretend to be.
Most people who abandon religion fully replace it with shit like totalitarian utopic politics or rampant hedonism. Very few actually move towards better things.
I am an atheist and no matter how much I want to, I just can't believe in any sort of afterlife or sky wizards. But... I am an actual atheist, not one of those nutjobs who worship communism/hedonism/woke cult/etc.
It is awful btw. ever since I my understanding of biology has reached the point where I realized biological immortality / brain uploading will not be achievable during my lifetime (if ever) I have been wracked with depression and existential dread. 0/10. would not recommend.
This clearly explains who humans evolved to be believers who need and crave religion.