Grok explains Reddit atheism
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All people need gods. To VERY few, that god can be themselves, and not have them crumble under the pressure. The rest, should they eschew gods, will simply find new gods to offload that pressure onto.
It wasn't my wrong, it was God's plan. -> It wasn't my wrong, it was the Government's policy. -> It wasn't my wrong, it's Society's inherent flaws. -> It wasn't my wrong, it was The Company's mission statement. -> It wasn't my wrong, it was the Family/Clan's decision.
It takes a truly strong person to say "yeah, all the flaws in myself are my own responsibility, every decision, every error, every slight, they're all entirely upon me, and no one else".
I know I sure as hell can't. Not 100% of the time. We all submit to the will of the Greater on occasion, if only to absolve ourselves of our own sins of our own designs. It's the height of hubris to assume we can. Literally, as hubris' origins is in assuming oneself to be as a god.
Thanks for that analysation of the phenomenon. I'm no scholar or philosopher, but I do occasionally make the connections of people making their own god to worship or blame regardless of whether they acknowledge it or not.