(May 18, 2009 at 10:29 pm)icthus Wrote: I agree with your Emily Dickinson quote to a point. Today is sweet because it will never come again. It's my faith that the afterlife will be good everyday that makes the worst days of this life sweet. Every DAY is not good, but LIFE is good!!

Icthus

How you know there are a afterlife? Doesn't sounds logical

Also you don't have to have faith to enjoy life. Don't really see why you need religion for that or faith.

(May 18, 2009 at 11:22 pm)lrh9 Wrote: It's hard to like someone you intend to kill.

We talking about you or them (after all they do consign us po' atheists to eternal damnation)?

Kyu

Them.

(May 19, 2009 at 8:52 am)lrh9 Wrote: Them.

To clarify this isn't about you hating them it's about them hating us, yes? I just want to know where you're coming from on this

Kyu

Me hating them.

All of them?

The most fanatical and extremist certainly.

So you don't want to see all theists dead then. Just the lunatic fringe? Would that be fair?

(May 19, 2009 at 9:30 am)lrh9 Wrote: Me hating them.

Surely you should be pitying them? After all they don't appear to have the same grasp on reality as we do. Surely they represent an opportunity for us to enlighten them ... doesn't hatred makes you as bad as them?

Kyu

Yes. (The rest of this is just filler because the forum wouldn't allow me to post a shorter message.) (@ Darwinian)

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I would that war could be avoided. However, observing the extremist factions in religion leads me to the conclusion that if one such faction gained a decisive advantage over all other factions, it would press that advantage to destroy or enslave all who do not share their beliefs, or even destroy humanity in general in the case of suicide religions. I contend that there are some factions that will never willingly peacefully co-exist with others.