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but I still firmly believe that I don't want to worship a deity that doesn't want me to critcally think or ask questions that deviate from what I'm told.


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Neither do I.

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Accepting what I'm told as absolute truth scares me a little, if that's a problem, I guess I'll burn.


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What if it is absolute truth?

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You don't know what the afterlife is unless you are indeed after life. Or can you?


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Not in every detail, but there is an analogy to experiences you have had, and even if not, you have experienced joy and you know what feeling good means.

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I mean, the greeks and romans believed in hundreds of gods to explain each little thing that they didn't really know about. We look back and laugh, in a few thousand years, what are we going to be saying about the religions we have now?


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Abraham believed in the one God Jehovah long before Homer was born. And of course, if there's no afterlife, in a few thousand years you and I won't be saying anything.

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No need to get all defensive when others don't believe


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I'm not defenseive about your unbelief. I defend what I believe when it's attacked.