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To: miraje who wrote (17643)	6/16/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

>>>You posted earlier on the eventual demise of religion. This brings up a question regarding human psychology for which I've never found a satisfactory answer. Why do so many people, including some who are otherwise intelligent and rational, need religion? I really wish I knew the answer to this. I have never had such a need and can't understand why anyone would. It's truly a mystery to me.<<< Why James!....aint you ben a listenin ta Ann and all them there folks abouts why we need us a God??? Its cause we is all askeered little rabbits and cant not thank for ourseves and cause we is ig-no-rant..what ever that is ................... :o)

To: miraje who wrote (17643)	6/16/1998 11:36:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

JB: There are many answers to your excellent question, but primary among them are: 1. Those that join because they want to associate with a tribe. 2. Those that feel secure in the illusion of tradition. 3. Those that join because of fear of the unknown (primarily death). 4. Those that join because they want to assume some sort of tribal leadership and control over others. (These individuals are truly despicable.) 5. Those that belong simply because of conditioning almost since birth. FT

To: miraje who wrote (17643)	6/19/1998 1:58:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

James, I heard just the tiniest bit of a discussion on television the other day about men being pattern seekers. I wish I had heard more! In other words, from the part of us that is simply animal instinct, and probably as a survival mechanism in the early days, we seek patterns. So it was necessary for early man to invent some mystical explanation of the universe, and why bad things happen, and what happens when we die, because the ideas of chaos and random chance are simply too scary and create insecurity in most of us. Free thinkers would seem to be radically different from the pattern seekers.