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Religion keeps one’s mind in a puerile state, which causes anxiety.

Predicting an eternal hell in which laws of nature do not work. This keeps the mind immature and causes anxiety.
The human body is supposed to grow old, mature, then death is not so bad.
And fire burns something, that thing disappears.
That is the natural order and it keeps the mind sane.

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CopperCicada · M

How about nontheistic religions?

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CopperCicada · M

@Ferise1 You always make the presumption that all religions are theistic.

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CopperCicada · M

@Ferise1 That isn't clear, but good to know.

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CopperCicada · M

@Ferise1 Well, there are theistic religious positions that don’t embrace eternal hell, and there are non-theistic religious positions that do. So it was really not clear to me.

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CopperCicada · M

@Ferise1 Some Buddhist presentations have the concept of an eternal hell. Not all such hells are eternal hells, it is a hell associated with a particular psychology that is cut off from ones fundamental goodness.

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