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Religion & Mental Health

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Religion Offers a Safe Space, Right?

Religion offers, definitely offers an organizing framework, right? Depending on which religion you believe in, stuff like heaven, hell, sin, good, bad, et cetera. It just gives us lots of ways to view the world. Why does a bad thing happen to me? Well, because religion will give you an answer. And then there are two other things that i think are really, really important that religion offers. One is sublimation of ego. Ego isn't all bad, but religion is essentially like, at least abrahamic religions tend to be very sublimating the ego oriented.

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