Well if you consider just how many seconds there are in your life, killing people every once in a while could still be mathematically a considerably rare event :dean-malice:
Plenty of sects of American Christianity (most Evangelicals, I'd argue) would say that, after dying of a nuclear attack, 99% of those Koreans would immediately be roasting in hell because they were not born-again Christians.
I can't fault people for looking to religion for comfort, but the belief in an afterlife is literally why life sucks on earth. People think that everything will be perfect after they die instead of accepting the fact that they may no longer exist
Belief in reincarnation is where its at. You know you're coming back so you should do everything you can to make the world a better place to come back to.
But belief in reincarnation tied in with a belief in Karma leads to a justification for unjust hierarchies. "He was born into a rich family because he was good in his past life, he was born into a poor family because he was bad in a past life." It's like Determinism but only so much as it benefits people born into power.
What belief in an afterlife does to a mf
This isn't even justifiable under Christianity.
Like, Thou Shalt Not Kill is right there in God's top ten of things He wants you not to do
Half of Christian history is justifying exceptions to that particular rule.
The Michael Scott approach
"Thou shalt not kill"
"Yes, it would be the worst thing in the world"
Well if you consider just how many seconds there are in your life, killing people every once in a while could still be mathematically a considerably rare event :dean-malice:
Okay yes but have you considered that we must kill the unbelievers?
Plenty of sects of American Christianity (most Evangelicals, I'd argue) would say that, after dying of a nuclear attack, 99% of those Koreans would immediately be roasting in hell because they were not born-again Christians.
Butalso that doesn't make it any less urgent to bathe them in nuclear power, because
the thought of it makes me hardjesusI can't fault people for looking to religion for comfort, but the belief in an afterlife is literally why life sucks on earth. People think that everything will be perfect after they die instead of accepting the fact that they may no longer exist
Belief in reincarnation is where its at. You know you're coming back so you should do everything you can to make the world a better place to come back to.
But belief in reincarnation tied in with a belief in Karma leads to a justification for unjust hierarchies. "He was born into a rich family because he was good in his past life, he was born into a poor family because he was bad in a past life." It's like Determinism but only so much as it benefits people born into power.
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Fucking this.