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I would say that it would be one hell of a disappointment for the poor soul who refused to lead a happy life in hopes for the one afterwards only to find out that there is no such thing. But of course, if that were the case one can't really talk about "disappointment", or any other feeling, once dead. Suffice it to say that it would be a shame.hyena said:religion really only gives very broad directions, such as .... "remember that the real deal is the afterlife, not here".
And sadly, it's the reality that many people live, like those who choose "martyrdom".
This is one of the reasons why religions are found in humans virtually everywhere throughout the world and throughout history: Our fear of death and our incessant hope for something more. I too would absolutely love it if I could live on in some real way.
That was EXACTLY my reasoning many years ago, when I defended the idea of a God (even though I had long realized how little sense religion itself made); and that is exactly why a lot of learned people still believe in a God.Siren said:In my case though, it is exactly that vast amount of knowledge that makes me believe. I find it quite unlikely that all this complexity and perfection of rules that we find in the universe (even in human bodies, the complexity with which they grow and work is amazing), came to be in a random way. Our world makes too much sense to have been created by mere chance. And i'm quite sure someone made those rules by which the world goes round in the first place, how else could they exist on their own?
Forgive me for presenting my answer in an "as is" manner without explanation (the matter is much too complex to write away in a post or even a thread), and I also really really don't mean to sound condescending (even though I know many of you will not believe me anyways) but this is it:
-You don't have enough of that knowledge, and you gravely underestimate its extent.
And I can also tell the following about you (and many other smart individuals that believe the same way):
-You think you understand evolution
-You do not understand evolution
Case in point:
-Evolution is NOT chance and it is NOT random. Very few people understand this.
-Calling the very predictable ways in which various natural things seem to work "rules" and "laws" is a human-made notion so that we may learn about them, work with them, and organize them; and this notion is obviously misleading. It makes people think that they are rules and laws like our rules and our laws and therefore had to be set by a conscious being.