Thanks for the Lewis thing. I suppose I should look him up but I can't imagine him convincing me to throw out reality. I threw out religion in 1967. I threw out the god fantasy in 1970. I was hard-core atheist not long after that. On 9/11/2001 I became anti-theist.
Religion is an interesting subject and it's difficult to ignore it, especially since religious violence is in the newspaper every day.
Religion has been good for a few things, for example the ancient religious paintings at Chicago's Art Institute and religious music like Handel's Messiah and Miserere Mei Deus. I don't have to believe these things to enjoy listening to it or looking at it.
Most religious people believe in a god of the gaps. I prefer to call gaps in human knowledge "research opportunities" or "points for future understanding".
The idea that God is real is not a big deal. What I don't understand is the idea this magical being requires worship. I will continue this at the next comment.
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The idea that God is real is not a big deal. What I don't understand is the idea this magical being requires worship. People make assumptions about their deity. It's all wild guessing. Everyone guesses differently which explains the countless different cults and the constant wars between these cults.
Why not just believe God is real and leave it at that? Why add all this nonsense to it? Like the idea our species is so special a magical master of the entire universe would go out of its way to magicaly give us a magical 2nd life. I don't think people realize how vast the universe is and how totally insignificant Earth is.
Why would there be something special about us? We are just one of thousands of species on the tree of life. The other creatures evolved just as much as we have. They just evolved to fill a different niche. And most likely there is life elsewhere. This planet is not a big deal and we are not a big deal.
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Mr. god-soaked then tried to sell his infinite joy bullshit. My reply:
I don't buy that infinite joy stuff. Nothing is infinite. There is no eternal magical 2nd life for dead people. That idea is too ridiculous to take seriously.
I know I was lucky to be born. I'm not greedy for something more. I accept reality. I think reality is interesting. I know I will eventually be equal to a dead cockroach, nothing more than a stinking pile of garbage. I don't have a problem with that.
People should appreciate the real heaven they already live in. It's called Earth, it's a paradise, it's not magical, and it's real.
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