• whoareu@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    yup, religion has made me mentally stable so I guess it’s beneficial to me at least.

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      4 months ago

      I guess I’m putting emphasis on the word “believe” and you seem to be seeing religion as a way to find comfort. This is why I feel you are not actually answering the question that OP posed. Perhaps I’m taking the question too literally.

      Adding more to this. The question is why do you believe in religion, not why you are religious. To me, there’s a difference between the two of these.

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        4 months ago

        There is a significant difference, but, in my limited experience, many people are religious, but don’t actually believe, but they think they do believe. When the rubber hits the road you find it what a person actually thinks is true.