as far the meaning of life in general that wasn't what I was going for. Most atheists have a different perspective ,even from each other, but it's the religious people I was wondering about. If you really believe heaven is waiting just around the corner you're going to do whatever you feel you need to to get in. Follow what ever teaching you have bought into. This is a test you MUST pass. Making you lose sight of the forest for the trees.
Reminds me of the quote 'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?'
The garden really is beautiful. Seems a shame to miss any of it because you're running around looking for fairies or worse yet killing people because some fairies don't get along.
the basic idea of a perfect being , making imperfect people, and sorting out the 'perfect ones' to keep, just doesn't make sense to me. Most of religion doesn't but...
What makes more sense to me is maybe god is a sixth grade god and we are all part of a science fair project. Then the test makes sense. He or she [god grade school is co-ed] will be graded on how many get to 'heaven'. So we better try hard 'cause you know all the losing science fair projects end up in the trash.
Reminds me of the quote 'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?'
The garden really is beautiful. Seems a shame to miss any of it because you're running around looking for fairies or worse yet killing people because some fairies don't get along.
the basic idea of a perfect being , making imperfect people, and sorting out the 'perfect ones' to keep, just doesn't make sense to me. Most of religion doesn't but...
What makes more sense to me is maybe god is a sixth grade god and we are all part of a science fair project. Then the test makes sense. He or she [god grade school is co-ed] will be graded on how many get to 'heaven'. So we better try hard 'cause you know all the losing science fair projects end up in the trash.
