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>My feeling is that if religion is a drug, then atheism is as well. Atheism isn't a drug because it doesn't provide any comfort. Christianity: Your mother pas
by rsheridan6 18y ago
>My feeling is that if religion is a drug, then atheism is as well.
Atheism isn't a drug because it doesn't provide any comfort.
Christianity: Your mother passed away last night, son. Someday you'll see her again in heaven.
Atheism: Your mother passed away last night, son. Someday you'll join her in a hole in the ground.
- frisco 18y agoAtheism allows you to take it further. Atheism says that since the world is governed by physical laws alone, anything not forbidden by the laws of physics is achievable. You don't have to concede that one day you'll join her in a hole in the ground: we become masters of our fate and, with enough creativity and engineering, throw off the pessimism imposed by religion.
- rsheridan6 18y agoNot really. It may be possible in theory to cure all diseases, but whether we can do so in time for YOU is doubtful (the older you are, the more doubtful it is). If we can, you'll die of an accident sooner or later. If you upload your mind into a computer with backups, you can avoid accidents but it's questionable whether it's really "you" who would survive. And even if everything goes perfectly and you consider the upload to equal "you," you'll still die in the heat death of the universe.