If I were to tell you that there is a God, he is all knowing, all powerful, that he'll answer and help you if you just pray, and yet you cannot see him. But you still believe me.
Then I give you a can of soup and say the same thing but you deny it and say it's silly to pray to a can of soup.
Why? You can see the can, you can touch it? In fact theres more reason of it's existence. But you still deny.
So you pray to this other God based on hope not truth, therefore religion is based only on 'hope', 'hope' that leads to no where and disappointment...
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You pray to God to give you food because you're starving, but you get no answer. So you then turn to the can of soup and pray; guess what, all you do is open it up and cook it.
So in the end what has helped you the most, imagination or reality?