[quote]BirdofPrey Posted:

yeah that line was intentionally a little over the top (you see what i mean about not completely serious), i do think there’s perhaps some truth to it. Sure while you’re alive right now you can love and laugh and all that good ****, but in the long term if your consciousness simply winks out when you die as if it never was, doesn’t that by nature render it rather meaningless? When enough time pbumes there won’t even be a memory of who you were, and since there won’t be anything of you to remember it for yourself, what does it matter in the end?[/quote]

I don’t know, that just doesn’t bother me. I mean, you’re not there for it, so you can’t necessarily be bothered by it.

I mean, I’d like it if there was something after, but I just don’t feel it. Reincarnation sounds pretty cool, but no religion really offers anything to me besides the promise of an afterlife. All that other stuff it says I can get somewhere else.

But seriously, reincarnation would be awesome.

[quote]also, a healthy religious lifestyle isn’t just about living for the afterlife as you said, and is mainly about what you do in this world. I can’t speak for christianity, since i’m a jew myself, but in judaism there is really very little talk of any afterlife, the great majority of it is dedicated to the here and now.[/quote]

That’s why I like Judaism more than Christianity. Christianity feels more like fear mongering with the importance it places on the afterlife.

I just don’t like that people do good things because their religion tells them too. As if it’s not good enough to just do it just because.

I mean, granted, once you break it down there’s no such thing as a selfless act, but it still bugs me when the religious issue comes up and the other side uses the moral card as if without religion there wouldn’t be morals.[/quote]

wtf why arent my quotes working