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you say "it only moves hopes and dreams from fantastic to reality". But reality doesn't allow hopes and dreams. For example, if there were no religion, what dreams would people have of the afterlife? they would just think that there is nothing after you die, and that certainly wouldn't give them any hope.
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I disagree with you in some aspects. If people think that once they die, it's over, it will motivate them to try harder in life , to achieve great things and have as good a time as possible. It would be something like visiting a theme park for the first time, and that it's going to close soon, but you only have one day to experience it. You'd try to live that day to the fullest.
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tycoon,
you say that no one would "share my sentiment" with religion out of the picture. You see, the problem with your logic is that with religion out of the picture, we wouldn't exist.
Also, you must be really depressed if you believe we are only here out of coincidence and there is nothing after death. Doesn't that mean that your whole existence is the span of a few short decades, and completely meaningless?
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If religion provides a false answer, then what is the "true" answer? I don't think you understand, there has to be some form of answer, or we wouldn't exist.
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You say without religion, we would not exist. Again , i think you mean to say with a god, we would not exist. Because, once again, religion is something a person can survive without.
No for the "what's the true answer" thing, we don't know. We have some ideas, but we aren't certain. Yet, to put so much faith in something with no evidence isn't the best choice either.
Now, finishing with that, how do you view homosexuality, Christian?