People don’t like to admit it but without belief you are nothing to God. This is true for the Evangelicals where belief gets you to God and without it you’re dammed. Even though you are required to play lip service to the idea that you are being loved unconditionally, you aren’t.
On a more universal perspective the placebo effect you get from really believing in God is largely what makes you experience his peace. The first thing to go in a dying faith is the placebo response and once that’s totally gone everything else deteriorates rapidly after. The placebo effect is a sweet, beautiful thing, there was a Ketamine study where the group that got the drug and the group that got the placebo both showed signs of their depression improving. Hope is powerful and we shouldn’t ridicule those who try to get it by any means necessary.
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