(June 14, 2018 at 2:40 pm)athstmike Wrote: I truly feel sorry for people who have terrible lives, and instead on trying to help themselves, they rely on the fact that when they die, they'll be in paradise. That is scary, to me.
I don't know what's worse -- Just enduring the crap of life while waiting for the bus to heaven, or thinking that prayer is the best way to fix the crap.
If anything, I think a non-believer will be tend to be more resilient in a crisis, quicker and more methodical in searching for real-world resources and less prone to magical thinking. When you have no reason to believe that supernatural help is imminent, you roll up your sleeves and get to work.
