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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2366801" data-attributes="member: 13966"><p>Actually, a strong reason for it is that faith in a deity or spirits means that one can believe they will live on even after death.....&nbsp; People are afraid of death and disappearing utterly forever, and a godless cleric who gets their power from philosophy or something generally can't give you any reason to hope or believe that you'll still exist after death.&nbsp; People want to believe they'll go on.&nbsp; Faith in a deity gives hope for that, whereas godless clerics can't give people anything to hope for beyond the life they're currently living.&nbsp; If nothing else, being told by one cleric that you'll be reincarnated after death, or pass on to an otherworld, or be joined with the greater omniscient essence of the divine, or something, is infinitely better to most folks than hearing from some philosopher that &quot;oh, dead is dead, you don't go anywhere.&quot;</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 2366801, member: 13966"] Actually, a strong reason for it is that faith in a deity or spirits means that one can believe they will live on even after death..... People are afraid of death and disappearing utterly forever, and a godless cleric who gets their power from philosophy or something generally can't give you any reason to hope or believe that you'll still exist after death. People want to believe they'll go on. Faith in a deity gives hope for that, whereas godless clerics can't give people anything to hope for beyond the life they're currently living. If nothing else, being told by one cleric that you'll be reincarnated after death, or pass on to an otherworld, or be joined with the greater omniscient essence of the divine, or something, is infinitely better to most folks than hearing from some philosopher that "oh, dead is dead, you don't go anywhere." [/QUOTE]

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