RE: Comfort in Faith at Death
July 5, 2019 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2019 at 4:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You’re not absorbing this at all. Antitheism contends that -theism- is shitty, not theists. I can paint theists with a broad brush only insomuch as they correctly qualify for the title, theism, denoting a common belief shared by them all.
You didn’t want to make this about any particular theist, and antitheism doesn’t make it about any particular theist. It states that - theism- affects good and bad people in similar, predictable, and historic ways. The individual believer doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and theism, warts and all, can’t persist without them.
Theism does not refer to the belief in an afterlife. It exploits that belief ( or desire, or fear). Not for comfort, which it doesn’t specifically or demonstrably provide... but for control, which it does. This will mean nothing to the newly departed, because they’re dead...but it does play on the heartstrings of those who remain alive by conflating and cashing in on our attachment to the departed- just as it’s done in thread.
.....to a bunch of atheists....
You didn’t want to make this about any particular theist, and antitheism doesn’t make it about any particular theist. It states that - theism- affects good and bad people in similar, predictable, and historic ways. The individual believer doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and theism, warts and all, can’t persist without them.
Theism does not refer to the belief in an afterlife. It exploits that belief ( or desire, or fear). Not for comfort, which it doesn’t specifically or demonstrably provide... but for control, which it does. This will mean nothing to the newly departed, because they’re dead...but it does play on the heartstrings of those who remain alive by conflating and cashing in on our attachment to the departed- just as it’s done in thread.
.....to a bunch of atheists....
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