> I see no evidence of any god around me,
> all is evolved from the primordial soup
Two quick things:
1) those two statements of yours are not mutually exclusive
2) absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (I love this saying ^_^ )
The problem I am having is that I cannot see how you draw many of your conclusions ("nothing remains", "Men have no ... souls") simply from a total lack of clues. I mean, if somebody told you eight hundred years ago that Earth revolves around Sol, would you pretty much dismiss them due to lack of evidence (yeah, there may have been ways of acquiring evidence back then, but that's knowledge in hindsight)?
I do agree that many religions tempt people with promises and hold them with threats. Of course, on the flip side, many religions teach people to be more socially oriented and increases the happiness quotient of the majority. My mother recently decided to regain the faith that she had lost for the last few decades. She is now a happier person, she has more friends, she has read up on some excellent philosophers (you know, Kant, Descartes, etc..) and is making up her own mind about her beliefs (the Christian-Catholic church in the US encourages this, a fact which you may find surprising). My mother reads more now. She spends time helping others in non-religious ways. She can assert herself and is less easy to bully around (which is a family problem -- I have that difficulty, and it'd be nice to not have that). Her beliefs may be wrong, and they may be right, but she is less uncomfortable with the idea of dying, so she can go about her life in some sort of normal fashion.
And she has to write papers for school, which I find really funny. ^_^ |
