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emotional · 08-07-2003, 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by Kilgore Trout
If society would learn that death is just part of life and it's not something to be afraid of, you wouldn't be so scared of death.

You don't know me, you don't know my feelings, so how can you tell why I shouldn't be scared of death? I know death is a part of life. But if death is the end of all my existence, then it is the thing I most fear. Therefore I believe death is not the end of a person's existence.

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What is the "accountability" in your idea of the afterlife? Do bad people go to a hell type of punishment? Having "bad" people go to hell is no better than having people who don't believe in jesus going to hell. You should not have infinite punishment for finite "sins". Even someone like Hitler does not deserve eternal punishment. For one thing really bad people are probably insane anyway.

I don't believe in infinite punishment. I always said eternal hell is a damnable doctrine. Hell is for repenting and then getting out of there, not for the sake of eternal sadistic torture.

Malagasy Rain · 08-07-2003, 07:34 PM

As a humanistic atheist, I feel happy that I was smart and conscious enough to realize how horrid and contradictory religions are and to reject it before it had any adverse effect on my further education. It makes sense to assume that gods don't exist if there is no evidence for them.

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08-07-2003, 07:34 PM	#82
Malagasy Rain Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USA Posts: 664	As a humanistic atheist, I feel happy that I was smart and conscious enough to realize how horrid and contradictory religions are and to reject it before it had any adverse effect on my further education. It makes sense to assume that gods don't exist if there is no evidence for them.

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