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You pride yourself on "intellectual honesty" and describing the process of cancer accurately, but then say a dying person gains "eternal life". Some might call
by ken 18y ago
You pride yourself on "intellectual honesty" and describing the process of cancer accurately, but then say a dying person gains "eternal life". Some might call it less than truthful to define "death" as "life".
I don't lie to children, either. I tell them that black is white, up is down and short is long ... but I do it compassionately.
- Prrometheus 18y agoUnfortunately there are weird structures in the human brain that cause even smart people to believe in this crap. I suppose it has evolutionary benefits in the management of complexity. You focus on the actions of yourself and your prey, everything else is the province of the sky God. If you spend too much time brooding over how Aunt Judy got eaten by a saber-tooth tiger then the wildebeest you're hunting might get away. It's frustrating that these weird beliefs are so widespread in modern society, but it looks like the world is slowly moving away from it. It gives me higher self-esteem to be secular now when I am ridiculed for it than in the future when most people believe like me.