[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Please forgive if I offend, but I really cannot rationalize any supposed advantage being gained by something that does not exist....it really is hard to understand....and I am truly interested in the rationale behind it...

To put it shortly, as far as nature is concerned, you are your genes. That is the only part that you will have, that has a chance at perpetual existence, in one form or another, as it relates to physical reality. Everything else, will be forgotten. Of course, if a god / God exists, all that changes. So far, I'm skeptical regarding the latter.

[PigRigger]

"That is the only part that you will have, that has a chance at perpetual existence, in one form or another, as it relates to physical reality. Everything else, will be forgotten. Of course, if a god / God exists, all that changes. So far, I'm skeptical regarding the latter."

Thanks for the explanation, I understand your perspective. ....Does God really exist....the question of all questions....I chose to have faith in the latter....not in hopes of claiming some reward...but because I believe each of us is part of something much greater than the whole of humanity and its pepetuation....

BTW, welcome to FR....