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Do you think we are wishful thinking, in a God?

Sometimes in life Ill think, Im lucky to be alive. Theres times on the road a speeding car alnost creamed me, and just life in general I think, maybe someone is watching over me. But then I think of my aunt, who recently had a rare disorder that caused oxygen to be deprived, rashes. It would eat her own immune system they told her, and it did. One day, only having it a couple months, she said, I dont want to die. 😟 A month later, she passed from that horrible disease. Why wasnt anyone watching out? Was it truly just her time, at only 57??
And you hear of little kids...recently a boy kept a knife under his pillows because his mom was violent. Thinking ahead at a young age for protection. And then, his mother took the knife, and literally stabbed him in the back, and he died. An innocent little being. Was there someone watching over him????? 😢 While I do believe there must be some higher power and am astoundingly grateful for life, Its hard wondering theres a being watching us or that loves us etc, when you think of those examples.
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Allelse · 36-40, M
Humans like to think they're special, they want to be the star of their own movie, some more than others of course and the idea of having a personal relationship with a divine creator is great for their ego. It also deludes into thinking there is a divine meaning to the rotten stuff that happens in their life. Rubbish really, things just happen for their own reasons. You cut off your finger and you'll bleed, you stick your dick in a wasps nest you'll get stung.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Allelse I think you are being a bit harsh though I agree with your point generally.

Many do find comfort in religion, especially when bereaved or in facing death. That has been a central point of most known religions, extant and extinct, even surmised, of any deities, from ancient times.

The approach to religion has often been made very egocentric though, in the past, by religious authorities and particularly by the Christian Church for its own power.

The Ancient Greeks (BC) had a totally different religion but did mix it up with philosophy, so the Christian (AD) Church found it very convenient to enforce for centuries, Aristotle's geocentric universe as home to we humans it thought the pinnacle of the Christian God's creation. Yet in Christian terms Aristotle was a pagan, and his pantheist religion had died out!