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Jay520 said:
Again, you're have made no connection between religious practice & fearing hell. All you've said is practicing religion is a tool for avoiding hell is the only reason that makes sense. All you're saying is "its the only thing that makes sense" without actually explaining why it makes sense. When you can actually provide a logical bridge between A.) religious practice & B.) avoiding Hell, then we can get some where. But currently, you're just saying the same thing in different ways.

You just drew an incorrect conclusion from what I have said. The underlined does not make sense according to my OP. The only thing that makes sense is so obvious that it's not even worth mentioning, yet you keep bringing it up (which is that people get positive mental effects from religious practicing). Why would I provide a bridge between your point A and B when the entire OP is based on my theory that there is no connection between the two?


Part of being religious means loving God. And part of Loving anyone means having a desire to please them, simply because you want to. Thus, there is religious practicing, which pleases God.

That is the point of my entire OP. Religious practicing does not please God and might as well be ignored.

 

Surely, there must have been a misunderstanding?