Posted by Eddie Sylvano on September 18, 2003, at 14:02:42
In reply to Re: I could spend hours responding to each item... » Eddie Sylvano, posted by fachad on September 18, 2003, at 12:58:59
> Maybe it is the fear of the wrath of an angry god that keeps them in line. You are less likely to indulge in life shortening vices if you think a god is going to eternally torture and punish you for doing it. That could explain why religious people live longer.
---------If I really believed that I would go on to either never ending torment or endless bliss upon death because of the parameters of my life, I would become a preist (or rabbi, or whatever) in a hearbeat, and I would welcome death. Compared to the afterlife, this would just be considered an abberant, forgettable, immeasurable blip of existance. I'd also be a bit suspect of God. Eternal torture for ~70 years of animal behavior?
Of course, the Big Bang is an artifical end point as well.
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