On Nov 6, 10:09 pm, Al Klein <ruk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:19:17 -0800, skyeyes <skye...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >That's because they're scared ****less of dying and having to be
> >dead. They can't wrap their heads around the fact that their
> >consciousness will one day cease. The wanna Live Forever. They are,
> >at best, craven cowards, and at worst, mentally unbalanced.
>
> Is it that, or is it that they fear some horrible fate if they die
> unsaved (or whatever the proper phrase may be)? (I don't know - I've
> never been any kind of theist.)
Having grown up a fundie, all the people I saw around me were afraid
of Eternal Damnation. But then again, they *were* fundies, so that
wasn't especially surprising, having had belief in afterlife with
heaven or hell thundered at them incessantly for most of their lives.
But when I got out into Real Life and started meeting people who
*weren't* fundies, I found that a scary lot of them were frightened,
not of the biblical lake of fire or everlasting torment, but of
*ceasing to exist*. Such people, I've found, are particularly
vulnerable to religious conversion. They'd rather believe that they
*might* be tortured everlastingly than face the possibility that their
conscious mind is simply going to be extinguished. Most of them seem
to think that they'll be able to experience nonbeing, nonsensical as
that sounds. So they opt for a salvationist religion, which assures
them they'll *always* be conscious. Secondarily, they worry about
going to heaven; but hell, apparently, is preferrable to oblivion.
And no, it makes no sense whatsoever.
Brenda
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