You use
god as a crutch and an excuse as all religious people do.
They blame the people who use
God as a crutch: people who refuse to learn and understand the world (because the God myth is an easier route), and people who have an agenda («I understand God and he happens to support my political and social biases.»)
my perspective is that you are delusional in daily living and you use
God as a crutch or excuse when things aren't going well...
Not exact matches
You have to tell yourself that in order to feel good about using a
crutch of a
god in your life because you can't truly cope with the reality of living on this planet, dealing with others that don't view life
as you do.
But when you use it
as your
crutch and you refuse to think critically using the brain
God gave you, then how are you different than those Pharisees?
I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough
as an individual to face the world without the psychological
crutch you call
god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.
This idea that people who believe in
God only use it
as a
crutch is a foolish reason to be an atheist.
She may be a scientist, but she is first and foremost a «believer» who gravitates to the
crutch of the supernatural to explain away unexplained observations
as «the hand of
god.»
Using Hitler
as a
crutch to pretende to portray yourself
as better than him is not going to cut it before men, much less before
God.