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There are a lot of great reasons not to murder, rob and rape my neighbors and religion isn’t one of them for me.
I don't think Jesus ever talks about murder, robbery, or rape.
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Science does tell us what happens after death, in great detail.
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After death our biological remains are recycled back into the universe. No reason to fret, it is our notch in existence.
What is consciousness? I don't mean intelligence, or the capacity for decision-making. I'm talking about consciousness. You. Who are you? Is consciousness even real? Or necessary?
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We have the present day 'sovereign' citizens running around and there goes the neighborhood.
Sovereign citizens remind me of my niece. Her favorite saying is, "I do what I want".
"I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why does anyone assume that anything happens after death? Its only because they don't want to deal with their own mortality, and that their conscious being ends with their death. But that's the fact, and everyone is better of dealing with the truth than buying into some fantasy.
Good and evil are human constructs, developed so that human behavior could be controlled.
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Science can't explain the most important questions in life like what happens after death and why evil exists. And atheist countries never last.
... U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
I am fairly religious myself. I do a regular examination of conscience, as I was taught decades ago. I don't know anyone else my age who does that.
Church leadership has failed, especially those so-called 'evangelical' types and the TV preachers. They are like whitewashed tombs and false prophets.
But the drop in religious affiliation is not unexpected. Europe has a far lower church attendance than the USA, it seems to be the trend in the modern world.
Let's remember: we can make people go to church ... when they are minors under our control ... but we can not make them believers. The best we can do is set a good example, but honestly we have generally failed at that.
Why does anyone assume that anything happens after death? Its only because they don't want to deal with their own mortality, and that their conscious being ends with their death. But that's the fact, and everyone is better of dealing with the truth than buying into some fantasy.
Good and evil are human constructs, developed so that human behavior could be controlled.
If good and evil are human constructs, why do we put people who murder other people in prison? If evil is a human construct, why have prisons at all? If evil is a human construct then who decides what is a crime and what is not a crime? What standard do we guide our lives and our society by?
That's a major reason Trump's supporters love him so much. He likes to do things unconventionally.
I think they just like to be lied to.
That's not as strange as it sounds, people don't like uncertainties. They want their own worldview reinforced, they want all those 'bad' outcomes to simply go away. A lie strongly asserted is a welcome thing to a lot of people. It doesn't change anything, but it makes people feel better.
Every new husband knows this. "Do I look fat?" ... there is only one answer.
There must be a term for that ...
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