my new theory about christians

[genkaus]

and im saying this as an ex christian who really wanted a better life in heaven. but anyone else ever notice how Christians spend their whole lives telling others about how much better life is in heaven, but when they or a loved one are sick with a terminal illness they pray their asses off? you know why Christians pray like crazy when they are dying? because they are scared. no matter how many years they spend bsing others, when they look at death in the face they know that this life is all there is.

Both positions are contradictory resolutions to the same thing - fear of death. Christians, like everyone else, fear death and want to live longer - so they pray they wouldn't die. And because of the same fear, they want to believe in a better life after death.

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Christians are supposed to want to live as long as possible. Otherwise, we'd all be committing suicide to get to heaven faster. Then you'd call us a death cult, so we can't win either way in the eyes of stupid atheists.

Apart from the doctrine saying suicide gets you to hell, not heaven, I see no reason why Christians would want to live longer.