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**loan4younow** · 03-12-2006, 06:51 AM

I feel the same you way you discussed in your OP. People pray to their god because they want something mainly. They want someone cured of a terrible disease or they want to go to heaven. They want to influence their god even though they know they have no power. Their god is all-powerful and knows all and supposedly has already determined everything that is going to happen. Still they hope to influence him.

And I don't understand the mindset that equates disease with punishment from some god. Or a test. That sort of god is just sadistic IMO. Authoritarian personalities tend to believe in authoritarian gods. And they create authoritarian families. And so it is perpetuated.

03-12-2006, 06:51 AM	#1
loan4younow Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	I feel the same you way you discussed in your OP. People pray to their god because they want something mainly. They want someone cured of a terrible disease or they want to go to heaven. They want to influence their god even though they know they have no power. Their god is all-powerful and knows all and supposedly has already determined everything that is going to happen. Still they hope to influence him. And I don't understand the mindset that equates disease with punishment from some god. Or a test. That sort of god is just sadistic IMO. Authoritarian personalities tend to believe in authoritarian gods. And they create authoritarian families. And so it is perpetuated.
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