RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 24, 2016 at 1:33 pm
(September 24, 2016 at 10:27 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 24, 2016 at 1:27 am)Arkilogue Wrote: I was under the impression that in the Abrahamic religions what you did in this life determined your fate in the next....?
But it's not just "what you do". It doing things in a very specific manner, no matter what it is you wish to do, for fear of losing out in the afterlife. You're right that "what you do in this life" is important to them -- and that "what you do" is obey the religious authorities insofar as what they define as sins.
How meaningful is that existence?
To know that the are consequences both good and bad for our actions? Very meaningful.
To have them dictated to you without explanation or understanding....not very.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder