On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:01:17 -0800, skyeyes <skyeyes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>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.
Thanks. I can't imagine being afraid of something we've all gone
through for almost 14 billion years - non-existence.
>
>And no, it makes no sense whatsoever.
Not to sane people.
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"When a religion is good, I conceive it will sup****t itself; and when
it does not sup****t itself, and God does not take care to sup****t it
so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil
power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
- Benjamin Franklin
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