"It's an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something
now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their
reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
---- Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist
On 7/13/2022 12:22 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
The idea of afterlife is a sort of pigeon drop. That is a scam where a
person is convinced that by putting up 10% of the value of something
in earnest money they will get a huge windfall. In the case of
religion the reward is eternity, after death or the passing of this
world, which cannot be substantiated. It also involves the threat that
if a person does not put up their earnest "money," or declare faith
they will suffer eternal punishment. It is the ultimate scam. The scam
has played well for centuries, and both Christianity and Islam are
eschatological fraudulent schemes.
LC
On Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 8:55:14 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 3:30 PM spudboy100 via Everything List
<[email protected]> wrote:
/> For me, the afterlife-compensation belief may have some
benefit for many/
Not if the afterlife includes hell, a place where an omniscient
being will use all of His infinite power to inflict infinite pain
on you for an infinite number of years and a place that can ONLY
be avoided if you have lived a perfect life. I have a great deal
of difficulty understanding why an infinitely intelligent being
would want to do that. But I find it remarkably easy to understand
why a human being, like a Christian priest or shaman of some other
religious franchise that claims to have God's cell number and
email address, would invent such an idea, he concocted eternal
damnation because it increased the likelihood he will be able to
convince other humans to do what he wants them to do. And
priests, pastors, mullahs and all other sorts of conmen like power.
John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>
leh
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