Your Sacrifice Will Go Unrewarded

Humans have always had this fascination with gods and heroes and messiahs; basically anything bigger than ourselves or higher than ourselves that we can use as a sort of psychological crutch for our own perceived inadequacies. Trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who believed in God and Jesus, though, made me wonder what it might feel like if I was convinced of its truthfulness... Would I feel guilty for not being good enough? Would I be afraid of what happens if I do something wrong? Or would I feel like there's some kind of higher meaning behind everything around me? I think it's important to understand the psychology of soldiers at war because it can give us insight into how the...View all