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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  If you were an atheist, you'd say the same thing about Jesus or Allah. In other words, you'd say that religion gives people false hope. These are people facing some personal tragedy or disaster - they turn to Jesus or Allah, some saviour in the sky brimming with love and imbued with divine power to help, if only they had faith. But it doesn't work, and they are devastated.
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Ding ding ding, we have ourselves a winner.
I AM an atheist. I think that religion is much WORSE than the LOA, even if somehow they could prove that the LOA doesn't work (which I don't expect). Everything I have read about the LOA and manifestation encourages a person to take responsibility for their perception of their world, their attitude and I haven't seen anybody trying to control people through the LOA.
Religion?? Not so much....
I do not refer to 'Jesus' or 'Allah' because I consider them separate from religion. In fact, most of the time you have a hard time finding the essence of either of these prophets in the religions that stemmed from their teachings. I have also not found anything in the actual words of Jesus, at least, which signficantly contradicts the LOA and much that supports it.