FrustratedFool Wrote:Is life more satisfying as an atheist or religionist?
Perhaps it is like asking if life is more satisfying as a man or a woman; or gay or straight. Meaning that it varies from person to person.
Some people find life more satisfying by believing in fantasies like religion, JFK conspiracies, alien visitations, holocaust denial, cryptids, etc. Just like some people find life more satisfying by being alcoholics, or nicotine addicts, or overeaters, or pill poppers, or sadomasochists. They just find a life of rationality and/ or health to be too boring and unliveable.
I mean I watched a documentary about the Westboro Baptist Church where you can see how these women have a constant grin cut into their faces as if they are experiencing a constant ecstasy while they scream their horrible hateful things.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
