RE: Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
March 31, 2022 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2022 at 2:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I stand corrected, you're not looking for a sociopath, you are one. For most of us, believers or not, whether we get punished in afterlife for a thing - in this case greed - has little to nothing to do with why we see it as problematic. I can only assume when the faithful show up with questions like these that they utterly lack a moral compass, or have pitched themselves into a completely disingenuous line of questioning from the get go. Hell, why not both, right?
Can you think of any reason that greed might be bad, because all I'm hearing is that being punished is bad? I suspect that neither of us likes to get slapped in the face, but if you didn't get slapped in the face, after you died...I guess...would that mean that greed was either good, or nuetral?
Is a violent assault only problematic when or if the offender gets caught and convicted?
More fundamentally...so what if that were the case, right? If part of why you believe that there's an afterlife is because you think it would suck if there were "no repercussions"..well, things might just suck, because there's no afterlife, right?
Can you think of any reason that greed might be bad, because all I'm hearing is that being punished is bad? I suspect that neither of us likes to get slapped in the face, but if you didn't get slapped in the face, after you died...I guess...would that mean that greed was either good, or nuetral?
Is a violent assault only problematic when or if the offender gets caught and convicted?
More fundamentally...so what if that were the case, right? If part of why you believe that there's an afterlife is because you think it would suck if there were "no repercussions"..well, things might just suck, because there's no afterlife, right?
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