People believe in God because it makes them feel good answered

· Lecture · 12m· Mar 2019

In a live Q&A with an atheist questioner, the lecturer turns the wish-fulfillment debunking argument around: everyone has faith per the Gita, atheism has its own psychological payoffs (being answerable to no one), and only theism is even testable — so the 'weird psychology' belongs to those who won't try.

dharma · existence of god · faith · geopolitics and religion · Pascal's Wager · philosophy of religion · psychology of religion · self-centeredness · skepticism · theism vs atheism


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