Religious Hypochondriacs

Religion can easily become a moral fiction—this thing that we convince ourselves is truly true but beyond the confines of our holy huddle remains empty, a wish fulfillment, a self-projection. We want so badly for it to be true, so much so that we become religious hypochondriacs, believing something (or at least convincing ourselves that we do), even to our own detriment.

Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach captured it like this: “God is the Love that satisfies our wishes, our emotional wants; he is himself the realized wish of the heart, the wish exalted…to that undoubting certainty before which no contradiction…maintains its ground.”

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WordsJim Kast-Keat
Image: Jim Kast-Keat
Music: Podington Bear