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RE: Wish
June 10, 2016 at 6:03 pm (This post was last modified: June 10, 2016 at 6:05 pm by Gemini.)
(June 10, 2016 at 5:55 pm)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: 4. While I see your point that religion can bring pain, ultimately it brings quite a few people joy in an otherwise dreary world they live in. I don't advocate false hope, but it doesn't only bring pain to believe there's an afterlife. It brings delusion and misconception, but the point of an afterlife is for comfort in the face of death and the death of loved ones.

A friend of mine died a couple years ago, from alcohol and prescription drugs. When I went to his funeral, his wife was insistent that he was in heaven.

The thought of saying, "No, he's just gone," didn't cross my mind. I just nodded.

But she was hurting anyway. Notwithstanding her belief in the afterlife, she was hurting. And I was hurting. It hurts everyone when you lose someone you love, no matter what you believe. Is believing in an afterlife really a comfort? 

I don't know.
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Wish - by purplepurpose - June 7, 2016 at 5:19 pm
RE: Wish - by Mister Agenda - June 7, 2016 at 5:20 pm
RE: Wish - by deleteduser12345 - June 7, 2016 at 5:46 pm
RE: Wish - by purplepurpose - June 7, 2016 at 6:11 pm
RE: Wish - by Simon Moon - June 7, 2016 at 9:04 pm
RE: Wish - by deleteduser12345 - June 8, 2016 at 2:26 am
RE: Wish - by purplepurpose - June 8, 2016 at 2:33 am
RE: Wish - by deleteduser12345 - June 8, 2016 at 2:35 am
RE: Wish - by Cyberman - June 8, 2016 at 4:39 am
RE: Wish - by SofaKingHigh - June 8, 2016 at 5:10 am
RE: Wish - by Simon Moon - June 7, 2016 at 5:48 pm
RE: Wish - by Cyberman - June 7, 2016 at 6:42 pm
RE: Wish - by brewer - June 7, 2016 at 6:50 pm
RE: Wish - by Meandering Atheist -J- - June 7, 2016 at 6:53 pm
RE: Wish - by Minimalist - June 7, 2016 at 7:12 pm
RE: Wish - by Aoi Magi - June 7, 2016 at 9:03 pm
RE: Wish - by IATIA - June 7, 2016 at 9:21 pm
RE: Wish - by Aoi Magi - June 7, 2016 at 11:26 pm
RE: Wish - by Cyberman - June 8, 2016 at 5:12 am
RE: Wish - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 5:17 am
RE: Wish - by mlmooney89 - June 8, 2016 at 11:36 am
RE: Wish - by account_inactive - June 10, 2016 at 12:25 pm
RE: Wish - by Losty - June 10, 2016 at 12:35 pm
RE: Wish - by robvalue - June 10, 2016 at 12:39 pm
RE: Wish - by Minimalist - June 10, 2016 at 12:54 pm
RE: Wish - by purplepurpose - June 10, 2016 at 1:28 pm
RE: Wish - by madog - June 10, 2016 at 2:04 pm
RE: Wish - by purplepurpose - June 10, 2016 at 2:29 pm
RE: Wish - by Simon Moon - June 10, 2016 at 3:38 pm
RE: Wish - by madog - June 10, 2016 at 4:07 pm
RE: Wish - by Sterben - June 10, 2016 at 2:34 pm
RE: Wish - by MJ the Skeptical - June 10, 2016 at 5:55 pm
RE: Wish - by Gemini - June 10, 2016 at 6:03 pm
RE: Wish - by purplepurpose - June 11, 2016 at 2:31 am

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