your ‘feel the love’ comment which a Iassumed was a stab at what was being discussed
GCRuse:
Not as icky as being in eternity and discovering you should have been beholden when alive- eternity is, well, forever obviously- no second chances- a simply leap of faith can ensure eternity won’t be spent in regret and agony. Spaghetti monster won’t seem like such a brilliant joke when one is suffering needlessly.
“a simply leap of faith can ensure eternity”
And that’s the nub. I cannot make myself believe something so as to get a reward. My beliefs are based on life experience, and the mythology of milennia-old desert dwellers is insufficiently empirical.
Can you really make yourself believe something? I’m not sure I can. I am either convinced by reason or I am not. It’s not exactly voluntary.
No, I found it somewhat idiotic the argument that because Stalin(not Hitler, mind you) was an atheist, all atheists somehow share the bloodied hands. Note this, an atheist is to himself or herself. There is no connection between one and another, as the case is in organised religion.
Well Stalin also drank water. So are all water-drinkers evil?
People who argue against the idea of not believing in an imaginary being, based on that faulty logic for one, know squat what atheism is.