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Originally Posted by Abel  Jesus was most critical of the religious leaders of His day. I don't promote religion. Religion always comes with a list of do's and don't's. What I encourage people to do is enter into a relationship with God through Jesus. In a loving relationship, you act and react out of love. Not because you feel obligated to, but because you just want to. |
Yes, imaginary friends can be useful tools for assisting the human brain through difficult psychologically stressful times (or life in general). Some people go to get a physical representation of such an imaginary friend in a cat or dog or fish or plant to which they can address themselves. Sometimes they make up this thing called god or borrow it from someone and use it to help their mind deal with stresses.
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I can't see the morals of the Bible being outdated. Not lying, stealing, cheating, killing, etc... all seem pretty good to me. If everyone would love their neighbor as themselves, this world definately be a much better place to live.
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This is one of the useful functions of this imaginary friend system that is passed around. It's extremely useful, for example, in 12 step programs when you need to ween someone off of a physical dependency on a substance and move them to a psychological dependency on a deity. It lets their body heal so that you can deal with the mind part later (if ever).
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Speaking of those ignorant, unlearned, primitive, ancient peoples, you would have to admit they have stumped us. They built the pyramids without any of our technology or knowledge. Experts still disagree on how they did it. Maybe they were not all that dumb after all.
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I don't think anyone's really implying that they are dumb. I think the main deal is that they didn't have that much information about the nature of the world they live in. At least, we've done a pretty good job of expanding our lack of knowledge and furthermore, we have very well defined boundaries where we know where "unknown" exists.