Héctor24 wrote:I think you're being to optimistic DG.
As Stl said the worthlessness of life is a hard pill for most people to swallow. Most people aren't willing to accept that their life has no more worth than say a moths. People would rather have something to live for instead of believing that they're only living to die.
Part of religion also acts as an incentive for people to behave well because of the prospect of heaven (not always but again i'm talking about people who are seriously religious not the only god can judge me types). This incentive of heaven/ fear of hell is unfortunately so powerful in some people that they are willing to actually die early as martyrs so they can get to heaven/ avoid hell. Heaven gives some people real comfort even if they're life is absolute shit because they believe in the consolationary prize of heaven. Without this a lot of people really struggle.
Again I say this is babying, what do you think people used to live for? caring for and looking after each others family and friends and enjoying life together has always been the worthiness of living, when you have children that increases even more, life is an adventure people should be bloody grateful their getting the experience at all.
Héctor24 wrote:Being athiestic is only a relatively recent phenomenon
This is incorrect, there were atheist types even as far back as Ancient Greece.
Héctor24 wrote:There was religion even in Rome and Greece, religion dates back much further then you're giving credit for. Even Pagans believed in some kind of religion.
I'm talking about the big main religions that have made people into brainwashed idiots,
Believe me I've studied history I know exactly how far back religion goes but it was never so restrictive to life that woman had to wear blankets with eye holes and you couldn't have sex till marriage etc etc, religion used to be tribal / cultural, now its an institution.
Vikings didn't not steal because they were afraid of Odin, they didn't steal (from each other) because you'd get your hand chopped off.
I just look forward to the day when we base our lives on being human beings and not with the paranoid imaginings and bias of invisible Gods.
At least the Pagans had the excuse of needing religion to explain the unexplainable, we don't.