(November 25, 2016 at 11:48 am)purplepurpose Wrote: You gotta give props to believers like, Joker, for cultivating/embracing such depressing or painful mood of "If I live like a selfish whoremonger, then most certainly I will suffer for such bad behavior in afterlife".
If that were all there is to it, if they kept their piety private, I would have no problem with it. They're fully entitled to their beliefs; it's their insistence that we're entitled to their beliefs that I take exception to. Not to mention the condescending superiority that seems to be part of the package.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
