Why do older people become extremely religious?

[TsarTsar444]

My parents went from extreme communist marxists that drank alcohol in the 80's to turbo religious muslim wishing death on Israel and hoping for an islamic state.

The only real muslims/christians/jews i truly respect are the ones that began their beliefs since their teens

 

[Deleted member 4430]

ageing and fear of death / losing purpose

 

[Deleted member 15338]

ageing and fear of death / losing purpose

Yeah

 

[Deleted member 15338]

The only real muslims/christians/jews i truly respect are the ones that began their beliefs since their teens

Being religious is a halo if you don't follow the rules

Otherwise it is soy, like atheism

 

[TsarTsar444]

ageing and fear of death / losing purpose

But guys like Hitler, Stalin, Mao all died as staunch commies/fascists

 

[Deleted member 17723]

what i see the most in brazil is single moms/roasties going to protestant churches to get a betabuxx.

 

[TsarTsar444]

what i see the most in brazil is single moms going to protestant churches to get a betabuxx.

Heard protestant church is massively overtaking catholics in Brazil jfll

 

[Lygodactylus]

My parents went from extreme communist marxists that drank alcohol in the 80's to turbo religious muslim wishing death on Israel and hoping for an islamic state.

The only real muslims/christians/jews i truly respect are the ones that began their beliefs since their teens

I became atheist at 16 tbh

 

[Deleted member 17723]

Heard protestant church is massively overtaking catholics in Brazil jfll

yes its over for the catholic church in brazil. in white areas especially.

 

[sytyl]

The only real muslims/christians/jews i truly respect are the ones that began their beliefs since their teens

what if I was giga religious in teens, never missing prayer, avoid speaking to girls etc. but now haven’t prayed in years, haram relationship/zina etc.

I’ve rationalized it as allah rewarding me for my hardships, steadfastness and piety… I will become religious af again in my 40s

 

[LookmaxBlau]

I guess since they are getting older. they probably want god to forgive them so that they don’t go to hell. better safe then sorry

 

[Deleted member 17723]

what if I was giga religious in teens, never missing prayer, avoid speaking to girls etc. but now haven’t prayed in years, haram relationship/zina etc.

I’ve rationalized it as allah rewarding me for my hardships, steadfastness and piety… I will become religious af again in my 40s

you cant be religious if you're blackpilled

 

[sytyl]

@TsarTsar444 To give you context on how religious I was… in high school if I was hanging out with friends and a girl joined, I would leave

 

[looksmaxxed]

cognitive decline and fear of dying. most likely they were never that bright to begin with

 

[Deleted member 4430]

But guys like Hitler, Stalin, Mao all died as staunch commies/fascists

yeah, but those guys never been picking potatoes in the fields or living in either farm or a 1+1 flat

 

[TsarTsar444]

@TsarTsar444 To give you context on how religious I was… in high school if I was hanging out with friends and a girl joined, I would leave

Yeah i was turbk religious when i was 14, only thing i would listen to were nasheeds, would avoid girls like a plague, would pray frequently. Nuked my smv just lol. Now im a staunch fascist

 

[Deleted member 15338]

@TsarTsar444 To give you context on how religious I was… in high school if I was hanging out with friends and a girl joined, I would leave

Over for Muslim bois

You would think them as high T terrorists

 

[Deleted member 15338]

Over for Muslim bois

You would think them as high T terrorists

You think u cool cuz you hmmed and leaved huh @sytyl

 

[Deleted member 1332]

People don't want to come to terms with the fact that there's almost certainly nothing after death.

They'd rather believe that there's an almighty being who decides if we get to live in paradise or hell forever, than believe the more likely scenario that death is more like just holding down the power button on a computer that will never turn back on again.

 

[Gargantuan]

People mostly embrace Marxism when they are young. But by the time they are middle-aged, they usually switch sides and start to identify with capitalism, conservatism and/or religion more often.
Peter Hitchens was like this as well. He was a Marxist in his younger years and ended up living in the Soviet Union for a bit.
But he quickly came to realize that communism doesn't work and as he got older, he abandoned those beliefs and ended up becoming a Christian again.

 

[TsarTsar444]

People don't want to come to terms with the fact that there's almost certainly nothing after death.

They'd rather believe that there's an almighty being who decides if we get to live in paradise or hell forever, than believe the more likely scenario that death is more like just holding down the power button on a computer that will never turn back on again.

Atheists are worst. Agnostics are the most realistic

 

[Chadlitecel]

World is not that complicated, we are just animals .
The best we can do is to find peace on life and then disappear forever.
Religion has given order an peace to too many people, I think that's enough to be respected.

People don't want to come to terms with the fact that there's almost certainly nothing after death.

They'd rather believe that there's an almighty being who decides if we get to live in paradise or hell forever, than believe the more likely scenario that death is more like just holding down the power button on a computer that will never turn back on again.

 

[reborn]

My parents went from extreme communist marxists that drank alcohol in the 80's to turbo religious muslim wishing death on Israel and hoping for an islamic state.

The only real muslims/christians/jews i truly respect are the ones that began their beliefs since their teens

I for one am still a 100% hardcore nihilist at the age of 40 and am pretty sure I will still be a nihilist when I die.

 

[AefreTreow]

One interesting line I heard from a preacher recently is that "you need to be young, able bodied, to sin". By old age indulgence will probably lose it's allure by both you being physically unable and pleasure getting old, so it makes sense people in older age would turn to religion

 

[Deleted member 18436]

Fear the end

 

[Mako]

It's a coping mechanism cause they know they are going to die soon

 

[UglyGod360]

Look at all the young religious people you shit faced cunt

 

[CFW432]

Lmao they think that if they get religious real quick, then God is going to forget or forgive their debauchery that they lived for most of their life, when they die.

Nigga I'm gonna hate God until my last breath, and if he does exist then I can't wait to debate with that nigga on why I hate his ass, even though he should already know.


Also I can't believe bosniaks where never not religious, even during communist times. See, this just goes to show that:

thousands of years of man-made religion and culture/traditional values< millions of years of human evolution geared towards survival and pleasure

 

[CFW432]

But guys like Hitler, Stalin, Mao all died as staunch commies/fascists

They were real niggas.

 

[CFW432]

People don't want to come to terms with the fact that there's almost certainly nothing after death.

They'd rather believe that there's an almighty being who decides if we get to live in paradise or hell forever, than believe the more likely scenario that death is more like just holding down the power button on a computer that will never turn back on again.

This, even as an atheist, this is still an extremely depressing thought.