Why Is It That Imaginary Friends …

… are OK for adults but not for children?

Many children may grow up without friends for any number of reasons, and in most cases, having an imaginary friend to share their days with probably causes no lasting harm. It’s a habit most children grow out of, once the need disappears.

And yet their parents will often see this as a bad thing, and try to stifle their children’s imagination and creativity.

But what about the socially-acceptable imaginary friend that a huge percentage of the world’s population talks to?

I am, of course, talking about God, or whatever different religions may call this supreme being.

Until proven to exist, this being can be nothing more than an imaginary friend – however real he, she or it may be to the people who claim belief in their God.

Their imaginary friend has special buildings dedicated to him (or her or it), people talk to him, pray to him, sing songs to him, have built up a complete cover story for him, and even kill each other in his name.

So how is this different to children’s imaginary friends?

Well, most children do cast these friends aside as they grow older, unlike most adults, and as far as I know, the vast majority of children won’t kill others for daring to have a different imaginary friend.

How about this as well? Most children create their own imaginary friends, using, of course, their own imagination, whereas the God that most people believe in is handed to them on a plate (often as a child, ironically), and they swallow what they are told without ever stopping to think whether they’re part of a gigantic flock of sheep taking part in the world’s largest and longest-running mass control experiment ever devised.

I clearly am not a religious person, and if you are, then I mean no offence by this – but I would ask that people question beliefs that are passed on to them before embracing them fully themselves.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT:


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