This observation has potentially two sources. 1) Recognising social & psychological needs you associate with God-belief in non-believers and having difficulty separating them from God-belief - purpose, morality, community etc (See Everybody is Wrong about God)https://twitter.com/bmurphypots/status/985508028177842176 …
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I still have the instinct to pray when a loved one is dangerously ill or something and I don't know how much of this is caused by having been deeply religious and how much is innate but my daughter prayed to the sky when she was 3 and hadn't heard of the God idea.
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I tend to think it's a byproduct of our tendency to express everything in words. I also implore and threaten my technology when it doesn't work. Also our need to feel we are doing something and our sense that we should be able to make things happen by willing it hard enough.
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Richard Dawkins pointed out that its common to hear even atheists who have thought the whole thing through in depth say things like 'It is so unfair when children die of cancer and evil dictators die in their sleep at 90' as tho there is some ultimate system of justice somewhere.
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I have done a journey of sorts. Childhood indoctrination through to atheist, then buddhist, now I ACT as if I believe but it is really a complicated thing I have not been able to put into words yet.
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