[Serious] Comfort in Faith at Death

[The Grand Nudger]

People see their loved ones and find comfort, at the end, regardless of their faith or a lack of faith. Except when they don’t, again regardless of faith or it’s lack.

It doesn’t seem as if any particular belief or even belief in general is the thing providing comfort when we can get it. I am an anti-theist...and while I’m no more bothered than anyone else when people attribute their state of mind to religion(and when that reported state of mind is actually positive, lol)...I just don’t think that whatever unspecified comfort theism may provide some people could ever balance the scales of effect.

In terms of seeing loved ones sure, but you’re wrong otherwise. People the comfort of theism is not unspecified or insignificant against a lack thereof.

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I say unspecified comfort to allow for all the different things that theists believe, and believe give them comfort. Some of them die comfortable in the knowledge that the unbelievers will burn, lol. Others, that every sick and horrid thing they’ve done ( and leave behind for the living to deal with, bonus) will either be rewarded or washed away from them. As Boru mentioned, idk that it’s a scale between comfort at death and effect, but if it were, it’d be hard for theism to come out on top no matter how well comforted the departing party may be by whatever it is that comforts them.

The beliefs themselves are only significant to the believer. We, as observers, are more concerned with their comfort itself, not the variable means of achieving it, and their comfort certainly matters very little beyond that tiny sphere and out into the world significantly effected by theistic belief.