Mon, 7 July 2008 Why Most People Believe in God Desperate, helpless, weak, frustrated, fearful...regular humans often want more of the good and less of the bad things in their life than they can get on their own. So they pray for outside help. Such praying is wishful thinking that often becomes self-hypnosis. And self-hypnosis does, indeed, empower the praying person. With credulous society's approval, the hopeful praying person attributes this (totally natural) power to a Higher Power. The relation between wishful thinking, prayer and hypnosis becomes clear.
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No Gods, No Guilt is the true story of one
man's journey from faithful Roman Catholic priest
to atheist psychologist. A serialized
autobiographical audio book by Stephen
Frederick Uhl, Ph.D.
