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Not OP, but yes, I think that any consumer of organized religion is doing it because fairy tales are easier than life and death is scary. That is all it really
by engineeringwoke 6y ago
Not OP, but yes, I think that any consumer of organized religion is doing it because fairy tales are easier than life and death is scary. That is all it really is, right?
- kylebyproxy 6y agoIMO, that's the most insidious aspect of organized religion. Rather than acknowledging death as an engineering problem to be solved and overcome, it teaches people to embrace death and conditions followers to not even consider fighting back.
- spaced-out 6y agoExactly this. Humanity is reaching the point where we can truly transcend our biological limitations, yet many follow ideologies that tell them to not even consider this, and instead put their faith in some sort of magical after-death utopia obviously born our of generations of wishful thinking.
- KMag 6y agoNot all religions posit an afterlife. Though, I guess a meaningless death is scarier than death, and nearly all religions are attempts to form meaning in life when there's no empirically obvious meaning.