Religion is a Mental Illness

You’re not the crazy one for limiting your conclusions to the available facts and evidence, for not believing in something for which no evidence or valid logical argument exists.

It’s bad enough you imagine this creature exists at all, but wanting to be its friend?

Oh, that’s right. Fear.

Fight, flight, freeze or fawn. You can’t fight an omnipotent god, you can’t run from an omnipresent god, and you can’t hide from an omniscient god.

That leaves “fawn”, aka worship. The optimism that its vindictiveness will be directed at someone - anyone - other than you.

The only thing that can stop it is us noticing all of this.

Believers like to describe their god as a “loving parent.” Well, let’s imagine that parent.

This parent leaves confusing instructions through a third party, then disappears, leaving the kids unattended. Doesn’t show up when the kids all get sick, doesn’t show up when the house is on fire, doesn’t show up when the kids are fighting and literally killing each other, doesn’t help when the kids are starving or dying of thirst. And yet, it hasn’t actually left, so this doesn’t come from neglect or unawareness. This parent is quietly watching the household on the hidden video cameras the whole time, making plans for which of the kids will be tortured for doing things that it doesn’t like - but didn’t stop or prevent - or defying its instructions - that it didn’t make clear.

It’s worse than this “loving god” being silent, invisible and inertly irresponsible. Rather, it’s passively malevolent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_oxygen 

Things we don’t understand can still be detected, either directly or by their influence on their surroundings. That’s why we know we don’t understand them. Saying that you can understand something yet it can’t be detected is admitting it exists nowhere else but within your understanding; that is, merely the product of your imagination.

Checkmate.

Divine authority: an illustration.

3-4 of those ten things involve calling anyone other than him your best friend.

Um, all of it?

Life With a Stalker.