Religion is Selfish

“Religion is selfish, because it deceptively gives comfort by making people feel special.”

Religion and dogma give people the option to believe and feel good, or to not believe and face the consequences of their lack of faith.  When faced with two choices that are intended to yield the same result, the natural and selfish tendency is to accept the choice that is comforting and comes across as caring and positive. However, as further stated in Theory of Self-Relativity:

“Nothing fails as badly as false-hope, empty-faith, and wishful-thinking.”

Dogmas and sacred-beliefs are easily adopted and believed by many, because believing in something that is comforting and gives hope, regardless of its factuality, is a form of placebo-thinking.  Dogmas, sanctity, and as a whole, religion and other ideologies succeed because they enable people to selfishly feel good and have a sense of belonging. In other words, they enable and encourage self-deception, which is designated as one of the main enemies of self-improvement in Self-Relativity. As stated in Theory of Self-Relativity:

“Our need to feel good versus the necessity to think well is one of the main factors that inhibits self-improvement”