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Is religion just a human psychological justification for the unknown? Today on the plane I met this girl whose name is Brinda, she is an Indian who live in Sudan, so her & I were talking about this. It all started with her telling me, that she feel like a minority because of her religion (Hindu), and that she can’t be open about it because there isn’t much diversity in Sudan for people to be able to accept other people’s beliefs, and then we started talking about psychology, she wondered if psychologists believe in God, and I told her some do and some don’t; they think of god/a higher power and religion as just a human psychological justification for the unknown and uncertainties of life and death, because humans by their very own nature cannot accept the unknown, like If there’s no god nor heaven or hell, what will happen to us after we die? Are we just heading towards oblivion? I think these tormenting thoughts about the unknown humans cannot endure, so they believe in God and heaven and hell; to justify these uncertainties of life and death. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very much a believer in God; this universe is too organised to have been made by coincidence, but at the same time this universe is so full of pain & suffering, I sometimes wonder why God make us go through this amount of pain and suffering. There is this paragraph I find myself thinking of often, I think I have read it somewhere, it goes something like this: “Sometimes I think pain is just a lack of understanding, If we could only understand it all, would we feel no pain? God must feel no pain, only joy Does this mean even our suffering pleases him?” I apologised to her; because I never meant to burden her with my thoughts. But honestly I just feel like when I arrive at the end of my life I just want to know that I have loved so much and that I have been so loved, and that I spent my time on earth enjoying my own company but also made it through in camaraderie with the only other beings I will ever counter who have any semblance of understanding of what is it like to be looking out the window on this absolute nonsense train Journey towards oblivion (or heaven and hell) and I want to have looked as many of them in the eyes as I could and have said to them I will never truly know what they are thinking but God do I understand and god I hope they understand!