RE: Comfort in Faith at Death
July 5, 2019 at 7:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2019 at 8:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Because they are. That’s a function of the variant of theism that eradicated all others in western culture. It’s not specifically their fault, just what the movement has been groomed to accomplish. Hell , the earliest Christians didn’t even believe in the afterlife contemporary christians do, it’s just that the contemporary afterlife is a much more effective hook to sink into human flesh with.
Antitheism approaches god belief as s phenomena of culture and human psychology, not as a condemnation of specific believers or beliefs.
Thus I remind you that the specific beliefs do not produce comfort. That’s s physiological response to distress found in human beings regardless of what or even if they believe... and even if it where a property of some specific set of theistic ideas....it’s not a free lunch.
You don’t have to agree with my assessment of the relative value of that comfort against the strings attached, but it would help for you to understand how, that, and why comfort is irrelevant to a given antitheists assessment. I -expect- people to find comfort and to communicate that in whatever way dominate their cultural narrative, as we’ve always done.
Antitheism approaches god belief as s phenomena of culture and human psychology, not as a condemnation of specific believers or beliefs.
Thus I remind you that the specific beliefs do not produce comfort. That’s s physiological response to distress found in human beings regardless of what or even if they believe... and even if it where a property of some specific set of theistic ideas....it’s not a free lunch.
You don’t have to agree with my assessment of the relative value of that comfort against the strings attached, but it would help for you to understand how, that, and why comfort is irrelevant to a given antitheists assessment. I -expect- people to find comfort and to communicate that in whatever way dominate their cultural narrative, as we’ve always done.
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