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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2) Observing people's tendency to be superstitious and seek a higher power, ultimate justice, which produced religion in the first place accompanied by a cultural familiarity with religion which leads them to express it in that way.
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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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Quite possibly why I spent two hours in a pub yesterday screaming abuse at a football team on a TV. They couldn't hear us, unfortunately.
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Precisely. Absurd species.
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