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Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
RE: Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
A guy can't even be wrong, just wrong, apparently. No, no no no. We must be afraid...or whatever. I'll be super disappointed if this was all some silly windup for a threat. That if we don't swear that we're going steady with someone else's besty... he's going to hurt us, after we die. Meh.

I've had alot of really frank and intimate discussions about afterlives, obviously with The Wife and with her family, but also members of my own and actual besties from childhood. It's just not something that comes across my mind often as a concern, and, when it does, I tend to be pretty satisfied with the contents of my life - a life lived in ways that are claimed to purchase me a ticket into all sorts of theme parks in the sky. Then again, I grew up in florida. I could always go to disney if I wanted to..I just never did. Me, I'm comfortable if there is an afterlife, and if there isn't. We already know that this is not the case for some afterlife believers. They seem to believe that things would be meaningless if there weren't.

Now that, right there, is real fear. I think that it would be extremely painful and produce alot of anxiety worrying that life was meaningless if there were no golden tickets.
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RE: Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism? - by The Grand Nudger - April 1, 2022 at 5:03 pm

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