(February 5, 2017 at 9:17 am)purplepurpose Wrote: I think, believers are very brave for not giving up by deciding to "poison" the comfort in their current life with serving to the Gods will to earn "eternal/true" happiness and not simply accept very strong possibility of permanent death.
Or - more likely - they're just too cowardly to face the inevitability of death. And they're gullible and desperate enough to accept whatever pleasant, self-serving fantasy of afterlife is offered to them by local frauds and nutjobs.
You can try to put a positive spin on irrational behaviors and beliefs, if you like - hey, maybe heroin addicts are "brave" for not giving up on chasing the dragon?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
