i can see where it might be more comforting to have a creator, and that might make your life feel like things were simpler but the complexity would be there. when even the distance to the moon dwarfs human scale, when light emitted by the sun takes ten minutes to get to the earth and when we look with the most powerful telescopes to the ends of the universe and contemplate that the photons that are striking our retinas were emitted long before the pyramids were built, the hypothesis of a god/creator becomes a stupendous edifice that is vastly bigger than the entire incomprehensible universe. it explains nothing. on the contrary it creates another even more unfathomable mystery but maybe that's why religious people like it; it takes us back to a mysterious universe depending on faith and faith alone, instead of a cold mechanical universe of physics.  but in reality christians vote with their feet. fly across the pacific ocean on an aircraft built on logic, reason and physics or fly across the ocean on an aircraft built on faith.  i think it's the religious that are resorting to "cope" not the atheists. we recognize that we're blind men feeling our way through a hostile world with a white cane, full of wolves and tapeworms and sharks and tsetse flies while christians have this one bronze age book that tells them all they need to know with certainty so they can just sit back and be comfortably complacent, so they can "cope".
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