Out Of God's Closet

Powerful Effectiveness of Fear and GreedMore of the many causes of belief in God: Fear of divine punishment and a  for heavenly happiness make a powerful combination. This stick and carrot combination is so powerful and self-reinforcing for the believer that it becomes addictive and does, indeed, make religion an opiate for hordes of the insecure. Still, religion does a lot of good works--good works that realistically should not need supernatural motivation. [Length 21:54 mins. | File Size = 20.1 MB]