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None of the advantages you list require belief in the supernatural, or the absolute truth of some sacred thousand-year old text. It's only due to deep cultural
by krapp 2y ago
None of the advantages you list require belief in the supernatural, or the absolute truth of some sacred thousand-year old text. It's only due to deep cultural conditioning that people assume religion is necessary for community, a sense of purpose or resilience. However, the world is filled with religious people who lack these qualities and non-religious people who possess them.
The absolute last thing we need for mental health care is a paradigm that considers demon possession or the wrath of an angry God to be legitimate concerns.