RE: So you when to hell now what.
December 8, 2014 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2014 at 11:49 am by robvalue.)
A lie or at best misguided. There is a lot of things considered "evidence" by people who are already suggestable to the supernatural, which are no more than trickery. If you want to believe something, you will find a way to believe it whether it's true or not.
There's no evidence that anything that has anything to do with the actual person survives. You rot down and you get recycled into nature. In that way, you are reborn after a fashion. But that's all.
Until anyone demonstrates otherwise, there's ansolutely no reason to think it even is a concept that makes sense, as wisely note above
This is where religion cleans up. Unfalsifiable claims. If you make a claim that cannot ever be proven false, you can repeat it forever. However, you have also in no way demonstrated that it's true. Religions are littered with such claims. Holding a belief just because other people can't demonstrate it to be false is a logical fallacy called the argument from ignorance. (Sorry cap'n! But this shits important to know.)
There are an infinite number of unfalsifiable claims. And they are all utterly useless. This can easily be seen because the direct contradiction of any such claim, is also unfalsifiable. So which one you "choose" to believe is entirely arbitrary. The only way to decide which beliefs make sense to hold, is ones that have some basis in reality and can be demonstrated.
Religion has gotten away with this faulty logic for far too long. It's an easy trap to fall into. Atheists are not trying to trick you. We're not the devil. We have nothing personally to gain from getting more atheists. There's no dogma or instructions. It's about freeing people
There's no evidence that anything that has anything to do with the actual person survives. You rot down and you get recycled into nature. In that way, you are reborn after a fashion. But that's all.
Until anyone demonstrates otherwise, there's ansolutely no reason to think it even is a concept that makes sense, as wisely note above

This is where religion cleans up. Unfalsifiable claims. If you make a claim that cannot ever be proven false, you can repeat it forever. However, you have also in no way demonstrated that it's true. Religions are littered with such claims. Holding a belief just because other people can't demonstrate it to be false is a logical fallacy called the argument from ignorance. (Sorry cap'n! But this shits important to know.)
There are an infinite number of unfalsifiable claims. And they are all utterly useless. This can easily be seen because the direct contradiction of any such claim, is also unfalsifiable. So which one you "choose" to believe is entirely arbitrary. The only way to decide which beliefs make sense to hold, is ones that have some basis in reality and can be demonstrated.
Religion has gotten away with this faulty logic for far too long. It's an easy trap to fall into. Atheists are not trying to trick you. We're not the devil. We have nothing personally to gain from getting more atheists. There's no dogma or instructions. It's about freeing people
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