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[–] Stavon 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

god loves repetition. What I don't understand is why?

That's what the human mind works, what it sees or hears over and over again it starts believing is true. Advertisements work the same way.

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[–] privacy_policy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Bingo. There are no gods without a human thinking one up. It's a basic human desire to understand and explain the world around us. When the unexplainable event occurred, say an eclipse, an eruption, and earthquake, etc. they rationalized it as an angry entity and promptly began offering what they had to appease that entity. Of course, the event was usually a one-off or it subsided after a short time without happening again so they thought, "wow, I guess <insert deity name here> really listened and made up more rules.

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[–] tazmanian [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

True.. availability cascade and all that.

But this is different. Because this come way after the belief that a certain myth is true. Most religions believe that if you pray a lot god will be happy. So repetition makes god smile..