RE: If you're an Atheist, what comforts you?
November 7, 2018 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2018 at 9:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
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The same things that comfort the religious. Let's be honest with ourselves....even when you were a believer, when some shitty thing happened in your life, your mind didn't immediately reel to "well, at least I've got god!".
When your tire blew out on the freeway, and you ran off the road...missed your appt, and the wrecker cost an arm and a leg, you probably consoled yourself in the fact that, at least..you didn't die in a fiery crash. Not in the belief that you'd been saved from the consequences of sin by jesus christ.
Right?
There is no comfort offered by the abrahamic faiths that amounts to anything other than some currently intangible post mortem benefit...but we aren't exactly running off to our deaths, no one is lamenting the fact that they -didn't- get into the fiery crash so that they could exchange their christ token for admittance to the funhouse in the sky. The faithful and the faithless are simply glad to be alive - and while they may later attribute their survival to some ghost - it isn't the ghost that gave either of them comfort (even if the ghost exists).
The same things that comfort the religious. Let's be honest with ourselves....even when you were a believer, when some shitty thing happened in your life, your mind didn't immediately reel to "well, at least I've got god!".
When your tire blew out on the freeway, and you ran off the road...missed your appt, and the wrecker cost an arm and a leg, you probably consoled yourself in the fact that, at least..you didn't die in a fiery crash. Not in the belief that you'd been saved from the consequences of sin by jesus christ.
Right?
There is no comfort offered by the abrahamic faiths that amounts to anything other than some currently intangible post mortem benefit...but we aren't exactly running off to our deaths, no one is lamenting the fact that they -didn't- get into the fiery crash so that they could exchange their christ token for admittance to the funhouse in the sky. The faithful and the faithless are simply glad to be alive - and while they may later attribute their survival to some ghost - it isn't the ghost that gave either of them comfort (even if the ghost exists).
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