RE: Why I'm Still a Christian
March 5, 2015 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2015 at 4:27 pm by Simon Moon.)
(March 5, 2015 at 3:31 pm)robvalue Wrote: And the idea that this life is actually negligible in the grand scheme of things is fucking dangerous. Every time someone makes a decision involving someone dying, because it's OK that they are going on to the "rest of their life", they've just cost someone the only life we have any reason to believe they actually have.
Exactly.
The idea that this life is just the place where theists wipe their feet for 7 or 8 decades, then off to the real life, is weird and dangerous.
Take notice how so many theists view global climate change.
Quote:Weird though it is, atheists can easily value life a fuck load more, because we are all in on this life. We don't bank on there being anything else. So that means not just us, but everyone around us, is important. Their feelings and their life is important. If I thought this was all just a little game and it's just a matter of getting to the next level, I dread to think what I would be like. [Obviously not every atheist will be this way! But I know a whole lot are.]
Don't you know...
This universe, with 200 billion galaxies, each with at least 100 billion stars, and an unimaginable number of planets, was created by a god as giant 'soul filtering machine'.
Yep. Just so a few billion hairless apes can be judged so some deity can figure out which ones go to which next life, the real one.
And what is that most important judging criteria? You have to believe he sacrificed himself, to himself as a loophole to the rules he created.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
