What is up with this sudden resurgence of New Age near-death Heaven nonsense? Movies like Heaven Is For Real and God's Not Dead, and books, including one from a neurologist, for crying out loud, are all touting the idea that there really is an Afterlife, that Our Loved Ones are "there" waiting for us, et al., ad nauseam.
People should know better than to trust the delusions brought on by a lack of oxygen to the brain. I have no trust in hallucinations caused by dying brain cells, even those in a neurologist, who should know better.
I attribute most of our modern world's ills to religion. I admit it. Sunni vs. Shia, Hamas vs. Israeli, and every other variation thereon in the Middle East can be laid squarely at religion's door. It's getting to be like the old Hatfields/McCoys feud, in that nobody can even remember what started it off any more. And don't even get me started on abortion and meddling in Women's Health issues. My God is better than your God. My God's Messenger is better than your God's Messenger. And I'm going to shove mine down your throat for your own good, whether you like it or not.
It's all a load of crap.
And it's never going to stop, especially not as long as we keep feeding the fire with fuel like the drivel that is Heaven Is For Real.
How the same species can put a wonderful robot explorer on Mars and still eagerly lap up this kind of crap makes me despair for our future. Not that we have much of one, since a lot of climate change denial is either based on religious imperatives -- after all, their God did give them complete "dominion" over the planet -- or worse, is encouraged, because hey, after all, anything we can do to get the End Times here sooner has got to be a Good Thing, right?
We're worse than chimps.
People should know better than to trust the delusions brought on by a lack of oxygen to the brain. I have no trust in hallucinations caused by dying brain cells, even those in a neurologist, who should know better.
I attribute most of our modern world's ills to religion. I admit it. Sunni vs. Shia, Hamas vs. Israeli, and every other variation thereon in the Middle East can be laid squarely at religion's door. It's getting to be like the old Hatfields/McCoys feud, in that nobody can even remember what started it off any more. And don't even get me started on abortion and meddling in Women's Health issues. My God is better than your God. My God's Messenger is better than your God's Messenger. And I'm going to shove mine down your throat for your own good, whether you like it or not.
It's all a load of crap.
And it's never going to stop, especially not as long as we keep feeding the fire with fuel like the drivel that is Heaven Is For Real.
How the same species can put a wonderful robot explorer on Mars and still eagerly lap up this kind of crap makes me despair for our future. Not that we have much of one, since a lot of climate change denial is either based on religious imperatives -- after all, their God did give them complete "dominion" over the planet -- or worse, is encouraged, because hey, after all, anything we can do to get the End Times here sooner has got to be a Good Thing, right?
We're worse than chimps.
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