RE: Recent Registree seeks the bas of Heliopolis
April 16, 2015 at 4:28 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2015 at 4:29 am by DeistPaladin.)
(April 15, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Hatshepsut Wrote: ...Forever, if possible. I suspect that was what religion was about: ...
While the fear of death is a driving force behind religion, the fear of life was, and arguably still is, its strongest appeal. Life in this world is full of uncertainty and thus anxiety. Religion offers a delusion that we can petition the unseen forces that weave our fate and this feature is perhaps its greatest selling point.
Consider that the ancient Hebrews didn't even have an afterlife in the earliest writings of the Bible. Their focus was on this life and the prosperity that Yahweh would grant those who were faithful to him. The promise of paradise and salvation would come in later additions to this tome.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
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