A general-purpose “need to belong” drives belief in God

[[deleted user]]

There’s an element of Western religion that’s clearly linked in some fundamental way to the fundamental human drive to be accepted and to ‘belong’ to your group.

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[Brad]

Maybe, but over the millenia billions of Buddhists needed no gods or afterlife to find happiness.