The positives of religion

There is no doubt that religion can provide great community, comfort, and consolation to the believer, but living in a dream world is not what I desire at this time. We can chose that which is or that which might be. It is a choice, for the here and now, Canada, 2018.

 Having being reading ethics, it is a choice, and how can I say that for seniors, how is living in a dream state is wrong? How can I say it is wrong for anyone? Well I may allow yous to starve, you lazy bastards, but other than that, is it wrong? I am an individual, and becoming an individualist. Productivity must be one of the first virtues, and I mean that as producing enough for my, our needs. How far into the wants we go is another issue. But I am not obligated, nor required, to support this society, if I chose not to.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessmom/2018/04/ask-mommy-what-would-you-do-if-your-kids-turned-out-religious/

It is conceivable to me that an atheist could turn to religion for community, comfort, and consolation, as the atheist community does not offer these. We offer cold hard reality, and if the individual cannot deal with reality, then religion is a better solution than self termination, perhaps. Perhaps we do a poor job of teaching methods of dealing with cold hard reality, but we did not get much aid in learning to deal with reality.

Perhaps it is time to misquote Airstotle's opening paragraph. "Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good:... " and say that every art and every science, even moral behavior and ethics, happiness, and flourishing, can be reduced into a teachable form; there then is no cause for tears over parts of life, as the whole of it calls for sorrow. (to misquote Seneca).  The point is that dealing with life is a learn-able skill. It all starts at the truth, that is learning what is real and what is just story. Once we learn, it is not easy to go from reality to not looking at reality, but may be possible.