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Originally posted by segosa
Why? Why does there have to be something? Why can't people accept that you die? Why does everyone constantly look for a reason? A reason for living: God. A reason for dying: the afterlife/heaven. Maybe people are so afraid of death that they need to come up with a reason not to be afraid of it.

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That's exactly the whole point, seg. Humans need something to believe in, in order to have a "happy" life or whatever you wanna call it. It's not that they're really afraid of death, they need the feeling that what they do in their lifes will be useful somehow. There's a religion out there (cant remember which one ) that says that if you do good in this life, you'll have a better next life (and if you do bad/evil/whatever, you'll have a worse one). You'd think 'why would you want to believe in something like that?'. The answer is quite simple: it gives you a reason to live and do your best at whatever you wanna do or be .
In my opinion, religion is there for people to have a reason of living. Catholics for example will be good in order to get to heaven .

i'm atheist btw

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Originally posted by vaccination
I'm totally against the whole god thing. The simple fact that he apparently made the world in 7 days (according to Christianity)

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afaik, the pope says already that it was a metaphor