God is an imaginary friend for adults!

[Nickman]

If a child talks to an imaginary friend, parents usually say it is a phase, or if more concerned they call in a psychiatrist. Adults dont do the same thing with god.

Is god a continuation of an imaginary friend?

[cnorman18]

If a child talks to an imaginary friend, parents usually say it is a phase, or if more concerned they call in a psychiatrist. Adults dont do the same thing with god.

Is god a continuation of an imaginary friend?

Sure, if the person fantasizes the other side of the conversation as children do.

Of course, if the person actually HEARS the other side of the conversation, he is suffering a specific symptom that is diagnostic for schizophrenia.

[Nickman]

So is prayer a form of talking to an imaginery friend?

[PREEST]

So is prayer a form of talking to an imaginery friend?

When I was a christian and when I prayed, I never felt like I was talking to anyone. What I could feel, however, was an overwhelming sense of embarrassment that I was talking to my self but hoping that someone in heaven was listening. Even though there was nobody there to make me feel embarrassed, I felt embarrassed for myself. Embarrassed that I as a young man, was talking to someone I wasn't even sure existed. The thing with my christian experience is that I just could not shake the feeling that this was all fake. Or, the feeling of embarrassment for it all, like when I saw people throwing their hands in the sky and singing out loud to someone they are ordered to love. These feelings just never escaped me and I considered that god would take these feelings of doubt away, these feelings that were perhaps 'burdening my soul' if he really was real. It's embarrassing and it denigrates human integrity.

[cnorman18]

So is prayer a form of talking to an imaginery friend?

Only if one assumes that God is imaginary. For those who believe in God, that is not a given.

[A Troubled Man]

If a child talks to an imaginary friend, parents usually say it is a phase, or if more concerned they call in a psychiatrist. Adults dont do the same thing with god.

Is god a continuation of an imaginary friend?

Seems more that gods are a continuation of a childhood indoctrination, something the child has accepted as fact and reality, hence it is unlikely they'll carry their imaginary friends into adulthood as a result of anything other than indoctrination.

[cnorman18]

If a child talks to an imaginary friend, parents usually say it is a phase, or if more concerned they call in a psychiatrist. Adults dont do the same thing with god.

Is god a continuation of an imaginary friend?

Seems more that gods are a continuation of a childhood indoctrination, something the child has accepted as fact and reality, hence it is unlikely they'll carry their imaginary friends into adulthood as a result of anything other than indoctrination.

Which assumes that religion is nothing more that belief in an imaginary God and that the only way to acquire such a belief is "indoctrination."

I would freely and happily admit that that is very often the case; but not always.

[AdHoc]

If a child talks to an imaginary friend, parents usually say it is a phase, or if more concerned they call in a psychiatrist. Adults dont do the same thing with god.

Is god a continuation of an imaginary friend?

Sure... If your god is imaginary

[Mr. LongView]

Even in science, the fringe of knowledge is guessed at, or imagined (with a dash of logic)...

Not all things are as plain as day.

[Nickman]

If a child talks to an imaginary friend, parents usually say it is a phase, or if more concerned they call in a psychiatrist. Adults dont do the same thing with god.

Is god a continuation of an imaginary friend?

Sure... If your god is imaginary

Which god isn't imaginary?