RE: Heaven seems awful 2 me-"Theist laughs at loudly & with great cruelty"
May 9, 2016 at 5:47 pm
(May 8, 2016 at 6:43 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Religion loves to reverse things. Servitude to a god equals freedom. Thinking only what he wants you to think, and doing only what he wants you to do, is somehow ultimate freedom. Heaven is a terrible existence, though I suppose people in heaven wouldn't recognize it, because they're not allowed to disagree with their god. In the christian afterlife, you're either given a lobotomy, or set on fire. Your choice.
It is not stated enough about why the religions of antiquity were written like they were, even in polytheism.
Even in Hinduism and Buddhism, in antiquity worldwide humans lived under local tribal royalty, and back then the morality rate was much higher and the mandate to be loyal to that local royalty was a demand. Humans mistook their good fortune from coming from the divine world.
Not even what we think of as the origins of western democracy were really dictatorship free. Even with the senate of Rome was a modern democracy you still had an immovable Caesar who had absolute power, even if he allowed the senate to write laws, he was still immovable and could veto anyone and anything he wanted to.
Our species is still stuck on old tribal memes far too much and we are simply still local thinkers far too much.
