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i don't have a basic belief in things. like i believe in the afterlife, souls, and being reborn , but i just can't truly believe in heaven , hell , or god. when most people talk about it i either don't listen or i lie to make them feel better. is that normal to do or am just alone on this subject.
Normal.
Personally, I don't care what anyone else believes. From my vantage point, I have heard a lot of arguments that were great arguments, but I have heard more that were misinformed and/or directed more towards the fallacies of the PEOPLE who ran the religion rather than the spiritual aspect of the religion itself.
Crazy thing is, in all of these religious arguments, I don't really give a damn =/ Like Shackleford said, I try to avoid it.
I tend to avoid religious type topics on here. Debating those subjects just doesn't really interest me.
Same. There's no fucking point. I don't even understand why people argue about it. Because the logical and emotional can not coincide, at all, right? What a pleasurable way to dismiss what can not be so easily explained.
I wouldn't make a very good president I don't think... I would abuse my position of power too much. But thank you though, I appreciate the sentiment :)
It is completely normal. I too have a problem with seeing heaven as a physical place. For me, religion in general is hope, hope for continuation of existence. It is led by fear of death, the end. Human beings are programed to survive or at least seek survival. This belief in afterlife is our defensive mechanism. I can scream all I want that I do not believe, but I know that deep inside I hope that when I die, some part of me will stay, somehow, somewhere. Also, I wanted to add that a concept of hell and heaven is foreigner to me as well. I fail to understand why do people have to seek reward for their good deeds. Why not make a world around you a better place, just cause.
I don't usually debate those kind of things, just so I don't offend anyone. It offends me when some of the people here refer to God as "the adult imaginary friend." However if you have different beliefs than me and you're nice about it, I'll like you as a person.
It is alright to believe in an afterlife, but the concepts of a "soul" and being "reborn" are both fantasies, invented and perpetuated by the same religious people that make you uncomfortable.
The afterlife is not guaranteed to be either blissful or torturous. It is what you make it in this life, literally. If you are an Ethical creature, you should be able to adapt to the afterlife, if that is what you choose. The notion that the afterlife is in some far away place and/or in a different form is completely false.
It'd be nice if everyone kept their beliefs to themselves, but unfortunately religious types have a tendency to try to force their views on others and to change society. So it forces non-believers to put them in their place. Speaking of which, WW3 will be a war against a major religion called Islam.