Agreed. As long as two lowest parts of Maslows hierarchy are fulfilled, I can see somewhat similar ammount of plusses and minuses in both.
However…
If you live in a shithole where those are not fulfilled and you have very low education level, I can’t see atheism giving you any kind of comfort or framework for life, where as theism will have great importance, but will most likely be used to control masses, you along with them and not always in positive direction.
I’d argue that especially people in bad situations, eg. being poor, in war or that have chronic illnesses, try to believe in something that helps them as a placebo. That just means religion is a consequence of being miserable or brainwashed though, not that the religion (including atheism) changes anything really.
I doubt there’s much correlation either way
Agreed. As long as two lowest parts of Maslows hierarchy are fulfilled, I can see somewhat similar ammount of plusses and minuses in both.
However…
If you live in a shithole where those are not fulfilled and you have very low education level, I can’t see atheism giving you any kind of comfort or framework for life, where as theism will have great importance, but will most likely be used to control masses, you along with them and not always in positive direction.
I’d argue that especially people in bad situations, eg. being poor, in war or that have chronic illnesses, try to believe in something that helps them as a placebo. That just means religion is a consequence of being miserable or brainwashed though, not that the religion (including atheism) changes anything really.