"God is dead and we killed him"; that's what the atheists have been saying for decades now, as they are proud of their handicraft in "destroying" God because it's profitable. Let's face it, atheists are literally PAID by leftists organizations to destroy the very fabric that woven the West after the Roman Empire crumbled.
And now what do we have? Their wet dreams of course. With their hatred upon the Abrahamic God and their aim to destroy it have been realized, they paved the way to THEIR religion of choice: Marxism. They're so logical, so intelligent, so reasonable, that they decided that the very fabric of culture, society, history and nations have to be destroyed because it is, according to them, also mandated by that old religion because fuck it.
By definition, we'll never get it.
Make the leap of faith.
Is this a brilliant, beautiful, good, and amazing world? If it is, then ask yourself how it got this way.
There's more to God than organized religion.
https://parvati.tripod.com/perennial.html
You're right, there's appeals to emotion and magical thinking.
No one should be making a leap of faith into something that isn't there and can't support you.
If you're gonna be a Christian, don't be a fucking "Jesus take the wheel" Christian.
As a Christian, those types also drive me up the freaking wall.
From a purely pragmatic point of view, it is a terrible way of getting converts (if that is your goal), and its also a very unhealthy/unhelpful way of living your life.
More importantly, it runs contrary to what the Bible itself says, as God does not meddle in the affairs of mortals outside of a few extreme examples. Speaking to people maybe, I believe I have heard it*, but he is not going to give you vast riches because you prayed hard enough to him.
Of course, I have found that in almost every case, its overcompensation. Those with guilty consciences who hide their crimes or sins with zealotry, while those who are solid in their faith and living their life to the best of their moral ability generally do so in quiet. Which is a trait that even Jesus pointed out, saying that the man who prays in private is usually more pious than the man who prays loudly and openly in the church. And as we all know, this same observation also applies to Woke Leftist (since it is more or less a secular religion).
/*(unless you have a logical reason for why someone screamed my name, in a car with no one else in it, with no one on the sidewalk, that happened to get me to look in the direction of a car running a stop sign and getting me to react fast enough to avoid getting t-boned)
The JTTW Christians and the Leftists use the incentive the way that all authoritarians do, it's why I have a significant issue with damn near all organized religions:
To which there is one an only one response to the creature that makes this sermon.
As an Anti-Theist, I see this all the time in most religions. Many of those weak-willed and harmless JTTW Christians subscribe to it. Or predators use this to enable themselves.
But, I get it. I get why a fire-and-brimstone Christian would call it Satanic... because it is. By these measures, we are in a fallen world, where devils of all kinds run amok, where every leader is the anti-Christ, and there was no rapture to save anyone. When I, as someone who opposes Christian ordering of the world, seem almost more pious than many Christians I know; then truly God has forsaken this world.
But hey, I don't believe in God. I think Nietzsche was correct: "God is dead and it is we who have killed him." Through the march of technology, and the expansion of knowledge, we have removed the mysticism that reinforced traditions we didn't understand. The illusion of God is dead, and it is now fully our responsibility to pay the price of that murder: we must learn to rise above our petulant wants, and take responsibility of our own lives, families, communities, and societies through courage of will.
When Civilization looses God, the training wheels come off. There's no longer anything to fall back on. There's no protection from failing. From my Libertarian perspective: that's a good thing. You no longer get to make excuses, and now you really do have to take responsibility.
It's not, half of this sub's reason to exist would not exist if it was. Am i supposed to turn myself into Satanist now instead of keeping to agnostic atheism?
This world is a lovely place, in my view. Humans have done some stupid things however. It's time to roll those back and embrace the order of nature and the gods instead.
That's subjective, hence, not an argument worth applying to anyone else.
Do your part, turn off Internet connection and rest of stupid things humanity has created those years :)
I don't believe in objective/subjective as distinctions. It's a false dichotomy.
You seem to have confused technology with functional social order. Very sorry to hear that.