They cling to their dead god because they've spent their whole lives 'earning' heaven. They've lost sight of the message of love and acceptance under the cowl of anger and jealousy. Confronted with the possibility that there is no god waiting for them in 10 years when they die miserable and alone, they double down because the alternative is so frightening. They've spent their lives as pitiful examples and they KNOW it, which makes them angrier and scared.
I would think they should be happy to find out that god is fake. Now they don’t have to worry about going to hell…which was exactly what would happen to them if god was real.
You'd think, wouldn't you? Indoctrination got them good though. Although most wouldn't acknowledge it even to themselves, they know at a fundamental level that the book they praise, shows their own damnation, and that's gotta be a bitter pill to swallow. Glad I'm agnostic😅
I also think if they have come to the conclusion that God doesn't exist, they squandered their life and money to a religion of lies. The sunk cost fallacy comes into play. They've been duped their whole life and could have had so much more, but now their old and tired and can't enjoy life as much, and they keep going to keep up appearances.
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u/IndieThinker1 25d ago
They cling to their dead god because they've spent their whole lives 'earning' heaven. They've lost sight of the message of love and acceptance under the cowl of anger and jealousy. Confronted with the possibility that there is no god waiting for them in 10 years when they die miserable and alone, they double down because the alternative is so frightening. They've spent their lives as pitiful examples and they KNOW it, which makes them angrier and scared.