RE: Coming to a mutual agreement and some rambling.
July 18, 2012 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2012 at 2:08 pm by Simon Moon.)
(July 18, 2012 at 1:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I never meant God would punish you or not preserve your soul if you disbelieved in him.
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Quote:What I tried to say, is that, you will be without the comfort in thought of a benevolent creator whom would preserve your soul and other souls.
I have zero discomfort in the thought that there is no 'benevolent creator' preserving my 'soul' or others 'souls'. I am completely comfortable with the thought, that if everything goes well, I will have my 80 or so years of life, and nothing more.
I am not afraid of death. Which leads me to believe that your main reason for your belief is your fear of death.
I am much more uncomfortable with the thought that I would believe something just because it made me feel better. I have way too much intellectual honesty and integrity for that. Lying to myself so I have some 'warm fuzzy' feelings about what happens after I die is very distasteful to me.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
