(November 4, 2025 at 8:29 pm)Alan V Wrote:And religious leadership is militating against that.(November 4, 2025 at 5:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s been said - with some justification, I think - that the threshold of emotional maturity is the acceptance of one’s own mortality. In that sense, belief in an eternal afterlife is a juvenile fantasy.
Boru
People who believe in eternal life -- and there are a lot who still do -- are largely driven by their desires and emotions rather than by reason. All of the evidence is against it.
They need to work on their intellectual lives.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.


