On 4/6/2014 3:18 PM, John Mikes wrote:
Samiya Illias,
you took up an honorable position and will be rewarded for it in the afterlife - "if
there is an afterlife".
A friend (almost reaching the title of Catholic Priest) said in a similar discussion: It
means so little mental investment to BELIVE and the reward is so great (eternal bliss)
that it wood be foolish not to go it's way.
Hmmm? Eternal bliss while singing hymns and worshipping a despotic egomanical superbeing,
for eternity... Sounds like being drugged. I think I'll pass.
Brent
"Now then in Earth these people cannot stand much church - an
hour and a quarter is the limit and they draw the line at once a
week. That is to say, Sunday. One day in seven; and even then
they do not look forward to it with longing. And so - consider
what their heaven provides for them: "church" that lasts forever,
and Sabbath that has not end! They quickly weary of this brief
hebdomadal Sabbath here, yet they long for that eternal one;
they dream of it, they talk about it, they think they think they
are going to enjoy it - with all their simple hearts they think
they think they are going to be happy in it!
It is because they do not think at all; they only think they
think.
--- Mark Twain, Letters from Earth
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