How afraid are you that there's no heaven nor hell?

How afraid are you that there's no heaven nor hell? Feb 6, 2020 4:08:33 GMT

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Post by gameboy on Feb 6, 2020 4:08:33 GMT

Feb 5, 2020 22:21:27 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

Feb 5, 2020 14:57:45 GMT gameboy said:

Oh bullshit, Toasty. I find religion fascinating, not because I necessarily do or don't believe it's true. I just love the study of human thought and philosophy.

It's like if I tell you about the Greek god Pan and his sexy flute, and you hiss back at me "There was no Pan. He was a meaningless delusion! Pan was a woodlands fairy!" I guess you're saying we can't talk about anything ever believed unless you yourself believe in it too. It's complete vanity and arrogance on your part.

The culture and history of religion can be fascinating, but to claim that there is a literal difference between a religious notion of belief in purgatory and limbo is utter bulls<>t. How can this possibly be proven, when it is only born out of a belief, that is only made “real” due to delusion of belief.

What Pan means to you, which is Greek mythology and just symbolic of something that the majority of people only DO see as a fairy tale, operates on a different dynamic, to a religious order in modern day, that do peddle their vain and arrogant bulls<>t onto current followers as being truth of God, when it operates from lies and manipulation of power.

But Greek religion was not a fairy tale. It explained in very real terms the natural forces of the universe. I've been into the occult and paganism. Frankly, it creates practical results.

Perhaps it's similar to the 'power of positive thinking' and disciplines which business people use in their daily lives for success. These principles do work. In AA when I did my Higher Power prayer, work went great. If I was depressed and said fuck it, no appeal to the Higher Power, things never went so well.

I don't think Christianity and Catholicism began as cynical attempts to control people. They were a means people used before science to understand the universe.