Your beliefs?
Your beliefs?
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My experience in the catholic church could apply to anyone praying - even my mother praying with tears in her eyes to Allah.
I do not think we are born with a longing for relationship with God. I think we are born with a longing to be loved. But life is difficult and it's a cold and indifferent universe - and people will consistently let you down. And that psychological disconnection, especially in Capitalisms alienation abliity, leads to the idea of providence. Which is universal and exists since long long time ago. The figure of Christ on the cross and some forms of evangelical Christianity fits that need so perfectly. But that is all it is, a need fulfilled by imagery.