(September 21, 2011 at 6:08 pm)xxxtobymac Wrote: theist keep on saying what if your wrong and our immortal souls are vanquished to hell. And athiest come back with what if your wrong. And I was thinking wouldn't it be more than worth our time to be able to control what we can while we are here on earth. Creationist have such blind faith that they are going to go to the disneyland in the sky that they really don't care about what happens here on earth.. This is where the problem is. Let's see what happens if the theist are wrong and there is no disneyland and we don't clean up the earth and protect the planet for those who come after us. the thing is Global warming in real, it has facts to back it up, God and heaven there is no facts, no proof it exist. and yet they still continue to choose the non proof over proof i just don't get it/
If there is an Afterlife, it would be the greatest foolishness and tragedy to miss out on it, would it not? So, it follows from that that no effort should be spared in determining whether or not it does indeed exist. I have not come across a single person who regards the Afterlife as non-existent who has made anything like a serious effort to find out for themselves whether or not it actually exists. Just claiming that others haven't proved its existence to you hardly helps matters, does it?
Furthermore, to limit one's ambition for oneself to the level of a farm animal's that just lives for the moment and does not engage in a search for an overarching cosmology is hardly worthy of an intelligent human being, is it? The butcher's knife awaits the ignorant animal - should a human being not try to escape from such a fate - if such is at all possible?
