Anonymous #1 1d

Go on…

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Anonymous #2 1d

What convinced you?

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Anonymous OP 20h

No universally loving and omnipotent god would allow such evil to happen on earth

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Anonymous #5 12h

How would God be accurately portrayed in your opinion?

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Anonymous #4 12h

So really it’s to give meaning or reason to the “after life”? It could just be the time after your life… aka death… but you’re saying humans can’t figure out what happens (if anything) after you die so we probably invented the story?

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Anonymous #3 12h

What makes you personally believe that?

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Anonymous #6 12h

Would it be the “let the kid fall and scrape their knee” parenting style where we allow children to injure themselves in order to teach a lesson? IF God is real then it has to be on a much grander scale than what we have here, right? Or, are you saying the evil in this world is too great for that to be any sort of valid explanation? I’m only playing devils advocate. I’m not picking a side, just seeing if you can further define yours.

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Anonymous OP 11h

I think believing humans were gods sole children and its focus would be arrogant, if there was a god who created everything we’d be a forgotten experiment in a Petri dish. Religion was created as a way to cope with cruel realities, a social binding agent, and a tool to give meaning for those who can’t find it on their own

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Anonymous #6 11h

So you’re not arguing against a higher power per se, but the fact that any higher power would have any interest in us other than a fleeting moment after creation. IF there is a higher power of some sort that is. It’s level of being would be so far beyond what we could even describe as the relationship between humans and an ant. There’s a total lack of consideration.

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Anonymous OP 10h

I’m saying that the afterlife is a concept our brains invented to comfort ourselves from the reality that it will be absolute nothingness after we die, just like it was before we were born. We didn’t exist for 14 billion years. I truly believe that we as individuals have this one chance of life, and then we die forever. No life after death, no after life

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Anonymous #2 8h

Why so angry?

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Anonymous #4 2h

So, first, I've thought about this a lot over the years. But, "we didn't exist for 14 billion years." True, you, the person writing this, didn't. I didn't. But how can you definitively say we don't didn't in any other forms? Memories don't carry with you after you die, after all, so you'd be a blank slate each time. A lil thought experiment.

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Anonymous #8 1h

We are only this human dna with this brain once. It sounds like you believe in spirits that transfer to different bodies or life forms. I don’t engage with these hypotheticals because no one has the exact same dna, so you can never be you again. And spirits don’t exist. I used to have delusions and believe I was talking to god. Now that I know they were delusions, I understand why people think the supernatural could be real. Our brains make up wonderful, powerful, and frankly non existent

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Anonymous #8 1h

…concepts to help us cope. Sorry word count lol

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