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Loneliness and Belief

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07-15-2011 11:29 AM 		Reply to: Message 12 by Rahvin
01-21-2008 1:05 PM

Re: Anything but God
Ringo writes:
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Some thoughts (and no details):
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  • Children often have an imaginary friend who tends to be more compliant than real friends.
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  • "Mind-control cults" often target people who feel disconnected from family and friends.
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  • Fundamentalist groups often discourage their members from associating with outsiders.
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Is it possible that I desire a compliant God? (Most definitely so!)
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I am a cosmological creationist, BTW. I have no qualms about evolution!
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Rahvin writes:
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Quite to the contrary, I found believing in an all-powerful father-figure deity who loved me to be a very easy mindset. It was extremely difficult to lose my faith. Very unpleasant.
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What advice would you give a believer such as I? Is it necessary to abandon ones faith due to atheism being more logical, rational, and reasonable? The advice I give myself is that believing in an interactive and loving God is not only good for my mental health, it does not interfere with other daily rationality. Its not like I believe Him to be imaginary, nor a construct of my imagination. Does denial of such logic affect mental health in any way?
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