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Helio said:
So all people who even hold semi-religious beliefs are selfish?
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I didn't intend that to be an absolute statement, more a different line of thinking to be approached on the topic.
What could be more selfish and "sinful" than to hold your own "guaranteed" place in some so-called, supposed after-life as more valuable than the only life you have ever known since being alive, and ever will know until you are dead.
If the "placement" in the after-life could be construed as an end to be ascertained by "erasing" those who oppose its advocated lifestyle in this life, it's obviously the epitome of selfishness, closed-mindedness and absolute distrust of anyone not "like you".
Do you not see some issues worth consideration there?
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Helio said:
On paper I could agree that believing in an afterlife could make you less concerned with the current life, but just as many religious fanatics and uncaring atheists have likely made life miserable throughout history.
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Certainly, and no "group" has any two individuals that are the same, even twins.
I am not proposing there is a "saintly choice" with which perfection is the norm of all who inhabit the group. I am saying that placing value on the mystical above that which is tangible, factual and observable is Devolutionary, not evolutionary.
Religious fanatics tried to stop proof coming out of almost every major scientific advance known to man, and this is simply another step to discourage the inevitable explanation through science of mans entire existence having no "hand of a creator" other than nature itself. Religion is simply a good attempt at men, controlling the will and lives of other men through the written word, and an exercise in replacing reason with faith, nature with (a) god, and progress with stability through authoritarianism, based in negatives.