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Originally Posted by Rooster
Religion is a crutch. It is a comfort to believe that there is something awaiting you after death. It assuages the feeling that we just go to the worms. It is for the people too weak to face reality.
In a way, I envy those who do believe there is something after death, for it makes departure easier, but I'm a pragmatist.
I do not begrudge anyone their beliefs but I do think their time would be better spent living now, rather than preparing for an afterlife.
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Not all religions are "death cults", and not all religious people are caught in that mentality.
People like the average bible-thumping Fundie are certainly death cultists, much more worried about the here-after than just plain living. They are miserable sods who try to pass that miserable on to everyone else.
As to the validity of an afterlife? There is enough evidence to suggest the possibility. And in my personal belief structure, I see there being several "after-lifes", one for each major religion from the Christians's heaven to the Asatru Valhalla to the proverbial "Happy Hunting Grounds" to our Summerdlands, and everything in between.