RE: Why do you believe in a God?
June 13, 2014 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2014 at 5:58 pm by Welsh cake.)
(June 13, 2014 at 5:33 pm)Vox Wrote: I also personally hold a belief in an afterlife, and I feel this belief has been empowered by my studies of world religions. No matter where you go in the world, men have formed some concept, no matter how strained or abstract of some sort of divine force and afterlife. Placed side by side, many of the ideas bear surprising similarities to one another; they believe in a realm of the dead, some sort of soul/presence and the unifying power of a divinity(s) or holy spirit(s).This is because people are irrational and emotional, not logical. We have always been confronted by death wherever we go and wherever we look. The possibility of, and fear of, dying and perishing has haunted man from the day he comprehended it was his end.
We observed other living things reaching the end of their existences, rotting and decaying away to nothing. It filled us with dread.
People however, are hardwired to find something positive even when there is demonstrably nothing to be positive about. We're biologically programmed not to maintain negative thoughts, even when these are consistent with reality.
These are the origins of after-death-life beliefs.
When we study death, and being reunited with oblivion, we learn that its not a bad thing at all. Its release. Its ultimate freedom, from everything. The burden of your identity, your shackles of your shortcomings all fall away.
Only gluttonously evil people who love their wealth and power on this earth still fear death after realizing this revelation.
