The advantages of choosing to believe in God (or "The Utility of Believing in God even if He does not exist")

Prayer and meditation can make you calm. Even a flickering on-off half belief in a supernatural power/God/Providence/Fate can help.

If you do really really do not believe in God, then you would have to have tremendous self-belief, which to some would appear to verge on narcissism or megalomania.

Perhaps the knowledge that you are doing your best for the best possible reasons can give you a kind of serenity.

To protect one from becoming infected by narcissism and megalomania, one could play with the idea of God.

An omnipotent, perfect and unique God is the most powerful entity conceivable by Man.

What could be more powerful?

The idea that He might exist.

What could be more powerful than that idea?

The idea that He does in fact exist.

What could be more powerful than this idea?

The idea that God is perfectly moral and will right all wrongs, in the end, because He is omnipotent.

What could be more powerful than that idea?

That He does exist, loves us and will look after us.

What is supremely comforting in this vale of tears and might make us try to do the right thing?

The belief in an afterlife in which every wrong is righted ie God.

You don't even need to completely believe in God to do this, that is the thing. Many atheists believe they have to really really believe in God to have the benefit of God.

Not at all. All you have to do is entertain the idea that He might exist and wish to help you, bearing in mind that the more you follow His commandments, the more likely He is help you.

If you do all the above, then you in theory carry the ability to calm yourself down with prayer and meditation and the periodic examination of your deeds and motives. This is actually quite Confucian, for Confucius said we should always go to bed every night examining our conscience and our behaviour.

If one has done wrong and knows one has done wrong, then a lot of our dialogues with God is a kind of bargaining, and that bargaining will inevitably be a promise to God to do better in the future if one has not been up to scratch in the past.

This can be surprisingly therapeutic, effective, cheap and self-improving.

Only Pride, a deadly sin, stops us from having the benefit of faith, I would venture to say.

Only God can protect Man from Woman and Feminism
http://www.dailynexus.com/2012-10-04/feminism-atheism-unholy-tenable-marriage-2/
Feminism and Atheism: An Unholy Marriage

Man's Greatest Achievement is the Creation of God

The only thing that distinguishes Man from lower animals is our ability to reason better than they how best to obtain pleasure and avoid pain in the long term. It was after all Man who created God and the institution of marriage. That must be Man's greatest achievement of all time.

God was created through an act of thinking, when Man conceived of a being that is unique, omnipotent and omniscient - a supreme being.

Having created God in his mind, by an act of thinking, Man simply started behaving as if God existed, Pygmalion-like, in just the same way a troubled child is encouraged by a child psychologist to have an imaginary friend.  That was how God came into existence.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_friend

Lust is a deadly sin when we have extra-marital sex, yet is instantly converted into something good and godly if we are married.   It has all the mysteries of transubstantiation yet can be explained quite simply.


If you are a woman, it is much easier to get a man to have sex with you than it is to get him to marry you.


Woman, do not take the easy way out and misuse the sexual instinct to prove - exactly what?  That a man will have sex with you because you are not smelly, old, repulsive or diseased?


Let us therefore use this instrument of good government that is God to obtain pleasure and avoid pain in the long term.   

Most of us are not saints and philosophers and do not care about the long term if the short term beckons with promises of pleasure.  Most of us are therefore like lower animals, and will not change our behaviour except through fear and pain.  Only a general belief in an omnipotent and omniscient God will make these lower human beings do the right thing therefore.  God is after all cheaper than CCTV and less intrusive than thoughtcrime laws.

Let us have the humility once again to pick up this much-used and much-abused Instrument of Good Government and vow to try harder and do better this time.

Liberals have their own priesthood too, do they not?  They have their own - dread word - theocracy, ie their  people who have the power to initiate, pass and enforce laws and also start wars that kill and torture people for unfair, irrational and unkind reasons.

Liberals believe in Free Love which would lead to a matriarchy, ie a society that condones female promiscuity.   Female promiscuity is logically, biologically and inevitably the facilitator of male promiscuity.

Anti-liberals (who believe that God serves the purpose of assisting us in our government, morality and spirituality) believe that a patriarchy which condones male promiscuity is the lesser evil, and those in charge of the ship of state always have a duty to choose the lesser evil in the long term.

The reason they do not is because our political system and political establishment is now infected by matriarchal dementia.

If the matriarchal dementia we are now suffering from is terminal and irreversible then the patient should at least know what he is dying of.