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Humans like to put meanings into things that are arbitrary to what they really stand for. There is an objective and subjective realty that we vacillate in. Religion is a way to escape the objective reality to live in an abstract realm. In that realm you can create a whole new reality. None of this would exist if we were not forced into it by fear. The bible is a political war book. There are so many hidden messages passed on from leaders, all ways to control the mind. The bible was revised many times and majority of the content was dated before the bible was created, in other religions. I only go on a rant about the history because it leads to what people believe in now. Now people claim that it "is to live the good life" but that was the theme in the bible. If you worship this war lord you would have a good life, and if not you suffer tenfold. When I say warlord that would be any of the leaders at the time conquering land by bloodshed in the story. It is an excuse to say the only way you can live a good life is vicariously through somebody else. When you come back to looking at things objectively, you are saying you look up to something abstract to tell you how to live in the non abstract world. You can not deny the fact that bible was written by men, and that poses the thought other men are telling you the right way to live. The idea is to sacrifice pleasure to have gratified pleasure, but there is not much pleasure giving up pleasure for something that may not exist. It does exist abstractly.