RE: Adopting Religion for fear of what may transpire post death?
November 27, 2011 at 3:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2011 at 3:47 am by ThinkingTom.)
That's known as Pascals wager, it was a cleaver idea until you realize there are literally thousands of God with the concept of hell. Next time you talk to him you should ask him why doesn't hell follow Islam instead? Then explain to him if you don't follow Allah you'll be chucked in his hell. That should stump him, I've used that on a few people and they generally just stay quite.
I do agree lots of people join religion because of the fear of the unknown, some people should understand that we know enough to say that consciousness and everything that equals >You< is lost after death. Since there isn't any credible evidence for any time of afterlife there isn't any reason to believe in one. *Fingers cross from reincarnation though, I want to be a bird!*
I do agree lots of people join religion because of the fear of the unknown, some people should understand that we know enough to say that consciousness and everything that equals >You< is lost after death. Since there isn't any credible evidence for any time of afterlife there isn't any reason to believe in one. *Fingers cross from reincarnation though, I want to be a bird!*
