A powerful statement in its own right, what Merz is explaining is the age-old historical debate on religion; man's innate desire to distinguish it as one or the other. If religion is a fantasy, then it is the greatest dream man has ever had. Religion, when juxtaposed to all human inventions, dwells above all others in the sheer magnitude of its complexity and significance. The idea of an individual that is actual, absolute, eternal, omniscent, …
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…God does not exist frees him from bondage to become an individual; and for the believer, knowing he does gives him reassurance that the world is not governed solely by differential equations and scientific hypotheses, but that there is a power of higher magnitude, a supreme anti-villain and the ultimate superhero that guides our destiny. For now, we can all be comfortable in our separate beliefs of religion because no one has the absolute answer.