A proposal on religiosity

whendovescry

Before your eyes glaze over as this is the umpteenth time you've seen this thread, please refrain from pre-judging. I am a great follower of the modern secularist movement but that does not make me a 'militant' atheist and I'm not trying to pick a fight with this proposal.

The 50th Eucharistic congress just ended in Dublin (affectionately called 'masstonbury' in another thread) and living in Ballsbridge I witnessed first hand the pulling power of believing in a supernatural entity.

Carl Sagan said: 'If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand? We long to be here for a purpose, even though, despite much self-deception, none is evident.'

I can certainly sympathize with the view that religion could potentially assuage the suffering of a family who loses a child to leukemia or as a supporting shoulder as we trundle through life.

As a materialist I believe that the brain is the sole contributor to consciousness, itself a product of evolution by natural selection. As a result, when we die, we definitively 'check out'.

My question to the religious is: If an everlasting afterlife could be disproved beyond a reasonable doubt, and that your ~80 years on earth is all you get, would you still hold your beliefs?

If yes, please explain why.

Thanks

padd b1975

Why did you not ask this on the religion and spirituality forum??

3ndahalfof6

petrol is fierce dear but spuds have just shot through the roof.

padd b1975

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

petrol is fierce dear but spuds have just shot through the roof.

Spud missiles?

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whendovescry wrote: »

My question to the religious is: If an everlasting afterlife could be disproved beyond a reasonable doubt, and that your ~80 years on earth is all you get, would you still hold your beliefs?

If yes, please explain why.

You think religious people have nothing better to do than to go around explaining their beliefs to you?

frozenfrozen

tl;dr probably something about the catholic church

padd b1975

Just googled the price of spuds.......good lord!!

El Weirdo

This shit was (last) done the other day.