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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's comfort. That can be if different things for different people and it can be many things at once.

  • Spiritual comfort that your god loves you.

  • Emotional comfort that you can do no wrong.

  • Community comfort that you and the people like you are the chosen people.

  • Life/death comfort for what happens after death.

  • Intellectual comfort to know all the answers.

  • Vindictive comfort to hate the people you want to.

It can just keep going.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also, confort for having a higher being supposedly take care of you like your parents did when you were a child. Anything to soothe the loss of infancy.