That question answers itself. If a theist is ready to give up the ghost, the relationship becomes moot anyways. What need does one have to replace a relationship that never existed?
If a person needs incentives, they are doing it for the wrong reasons, IMO. If you want/need a relationship with a deity, you are going to look for that. If you want a personal relationship with reality, you are fine making the most of the actual relationships you do have.
If a person needs incentives, they are doing it for the wrong reasons, IMO. If you want/need a relationship with a deity, you are going to look for that. If you want a personal relationship with reality, you are fine making the most of the actual relationships you do have.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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