(January 7, 2013 at 11:36 am)pocaracas Wrote: Why is life worth living as a theist?
If you're a christian/jew/muslim, you just can't wait to go meet the big guy.... but you need to die first, so why don't you?
No one here should recommend that. But it does bring up the illogical nature of the need to live for a god. If your objective is to get there, be it through his hand or your own, or the hand of another, why the fear of death?
It makes no sense to me that if "they are up in heaven now" that people cry over the loss of a loved one.
It does make sense to me that evolution produces this mourning process because death reminds us of our finite nature and it is counter to our desire to spread our genes. That is the real evolutionary reason we mourn.
If we didn't fear death we wouldn't evolve. So that is why we mourn and why we try to avoid danger.
I fear it only in the sense of pain, and missing my loved ones. But I can't fear it anymore than I can or should fear what I was before I was born.
