RE: Kid dies
January 6, 2018 at 10:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2018 at 10:10 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(January 6, 2018 at 3:16 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I was thinking about this earlier. Heaven and hell are a manifestation of the imagination of people who recognize that the world isn't fair, and can't accept it. They are completely unable to accept reality as it is, and so they imagine a reality in which everybody gets what they deserve. But the people who thought it up were primitive people, with primitive ideas about justice. To them, their enemies deserved the worst punishment imaginable, and the good people deserve the best results possible. It's stupid and absurd. But modern religious people are shackled to the past, and so they endorse such infantile fantasies.
That’s an interesting view. I don’t see the teachings about heaven as being deserved at all. Quite the opposite in fact.
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