RE: Comfort in Faith at Death
July 7, 2019 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2019 at 12:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 6, 2019 at 9:13 pm)Shell B Wrote: Can you name these equally comforting notions? I specifically asked you to if I recall correctly.
Did I say it was my main objection? I can't remember, but your analogy is terrible. Many, many theists only believe the romantic aspects of their religions, doing wonderful deeds in the name of Christ, and finding comfort in the notion of heaven. It's like being fine with hockey in general because you if you remove the face bashing, it's an all right thing.
Now, did you or did you not talk shit about theists and then say your argument was against theism, not theists, because you're really skirting right over salient bits of this exchange.
I talked shit, more properly, about what theism turns a theist into. This is the contention of antitheism, after all - that the belief in personal intervening gods has notable, demonstrable, and predictable effects on human populations.
As for other equally comforting beliefs as a contemporary Christian afterlife.....talk to the entirety of the world that doesn’t believe in a contemporary Christian afterlife.
The fact that you don’t see their beliefs as equally comforting is an effect of your cultural indoctrination and personal tastes- and yet another argument for anti-theism.
Even though you aren’t a christian, you are either incapable of seeing comparable benefit ( for whatever that’s worth) in those other beliefs, or are apparently unaware of their very existence.
Try google.
You’re taking issue with a single sentence on account of it being an unflattering comparison...but it might help to remember that the people who exploit death, the vultures in my statement, don’t necessarily do so for shitty reasons. If you believe in hell and love your daughter, your going to scare the piss out of your kid. The road to perdition, and all that. That would make you a loving vulture with good intentions, but a vulture all the same.
It’s nit exactly impossible for human beings to do a shitty thing, individually and as a group, fir Good Reasons™. Antitheism contends that theism (theism....theism.....theism) persuasively compels people into that range of thought and action.
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