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How Religion Got Rich By Selling Human Helplessness

 A confession of a need for God to save us is actually an admission that we believe God created us in such a way as to require our dependence upon Him for us to survive. How odd. No other species on the planet is designed to need to worship a God for it to survive, either as an individual or as a member of a group or even a species. 

Christianity, as such, teaches us it is a virtue to believe we are incapable of saving ourselves without our total dependence to their brand of God. By accepting we are incapable of solving our own problems, however, we instead yoke all our hopes to a brand of God, and then end up warring with each other over which brand is the one that will actually save us, and which are all causing all of the problems from which we need our "one true faith" to save us. 

We need God, in other words, to save us from killing each other over our different definitions of "God."

Prayers to a God are always about accepting that we are powerless to overcome this problem, and every other, without some supernatural agent using its supernatural energy to help us get over what that "God" allegedly "intelligently designed" us to only be able to overcome with its supernatural assistance. And for anyone who dares to overcome the biggest obstacles in their life without the need to depend upon a God (which really means dependence upon an institutional religion), there's always hell - which God assures us we can never overcome, because he made it, and us, and has decided it is a place we should rot away for all eternity. 

In short, the penalty for daring to think we can save ourselves without God's help is a hell in which God promises not to save us. Makes sense, and seems totally morally justified too. Not. 

Incredibly, Christians don't care who end up in such a torture chamber, just as long as it's not them. With a friend like that, who needs the devil? 

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