Atheists & Agnostics

qazplm135

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24. You didn't give evidence you gave

Mon Nov 28, 2022, 12:32 AM

Nov 2022

An opinion.

Death isn't promoted, life after death is promoted. If they didn't believe in life after death then death would be something to be feared. They get over that fear precisely because of a belief in an afterlife, and it's precisely that fear that generates the belief in an afterlife along with a greater force that transcends death...whether God or gods or reincarnation.

And people put themselves in danger usually due to ignorance not a death wish. They aren't hoping to die via virus, they are ignorant of the dangers of the virus or sucked in by conspiracy theories.

Which has little to do with religion writ large.

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How long do you think it will be before religion is no longer a significant part of our culture? [View all] 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author jimfields33 Nov 2022 #1

Far longer than we will be alive. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 #2

not til after the rapture unfortunately msongs Nov 2022 #3

It never will. It comes with being human. PSPS Nov 2022 #4

nope Skittles Nov 2022 #9

My existence stops at the end of my fingers Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #18

When we find a way to become immortal? qazplm135 Nov 2022 #5

I don't see that Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #19

Pretty narrow frame qazplm135 Nov 2022 #21

You framed it I did not Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #22

You didn't give evidence you gave qazplm135 Nov 2022 #24

I disagree Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #25

Lol qazplm135 Nov 2022 #26

Religions have a million and one ways of conning people Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #28

I'm agnostic lol qazplm135 Nov 2022 #29

Agnostic isn't a belief position Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #32

In spite of your qazplm135 Dec 2022 #34

We are NOT born with an idea of an afterlife Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #33

So when you think about qazplm135 Dec 2022 #36

Seriously? Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #31

Lol qazplm135 Dec 2022 #35

It's not going away. RockRaven Nov 2022 #6

+1 Auggie Nov 2022 #12

I don't see it coming back if we could stamp it all out Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #23

Not soon enough! PortTack Nov 2022 #7

not soon enough Skittles Nov 2022 #8

Like a bad penny, it always seems to come back Warpy Nov 2022 #10

One can only hope, SOON! joshdawg Nov 2022 #11

Christmas has become a secular holiday Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #20

The twelfth of never Walleye Nov 2022 #13

I don't know, but we need to TAX churches NOW. vanlassie Nov 2022 #14

9 grandkids.... 3 are adults. None of them go to church or even talk about religion. 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 #15

Since Trump is considered a god by some Cartoonist Nov 2022 #16

there always seems to be a 35% that hang on to the old ways. rurallib Nov 2022 #17

When the religious nuts finally blow everything up and no one is left. BluesRunTheGame Nov 2022 #27

Too long Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #30

within 10-20 years RussBLib Jan 2023 #37

Stop sending money to televangelists and mega church "Pastors" Sessuch Feb 2023 #38