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Something that sounds good and seems to solve a lot of problems for you,
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Sklansky recently said something simililar
here, he said:
"Because to some, the implications of non belief are so depressing or horrifying."
Your statement assumes that belief is a "bed of roses", where the weary human who couldn't make it in the world alone, had to turn and 'cling' to something that gave meaning to their life, with the choice being made from nothing more than a purely emotional need.