Why are so many young people unhappy these days?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Video funded by a christian school says you need invisible sky man to be happy? Shocking!

Deities are not needed to develope a social behavioral compass, values and ethics - any circumstance of living, any gang leader can do that, any isolated person for herself. Deities just give you all that under the premisses claimed by the priests playing with divine finger puppets. Its the all-inclusive holiday package deal to cut long voyages short.

However, man wants to see a meaning in it all, he craves for a "sense" to make sense of the chaos that cosmos is, he wants to have the illusion that he can have things "under his control", himself being safe that way. Corrupt deities that he can bribe ("I sent you a prayer and now you owe me fulfilling me my wish") is part of that.

This need imo indeed is essential in human existence, heck, after all I was a psychologist. However, it is the answers given to that need that make me frown my eyebrows or not. Personally, I do not need to beleive in supernatural divine entities like deities. To me that is like a little child playing with his imagined invisible animal friend that only itself can see. The believer however may gain comfort from the illusion. And usually I leave such people to themselves, if they think they are happier that way, why not. Its when they start to missionise that I go back into the house and see where my shield and sword and speers are.