Simple, it's faith
Faith that there is an eternal reward for the hardships endured here. If I'm wrong, no harm done. I believe in evolution and I believe the Bible supports it(books of Job and Elijah). I also believe you are free to believe whatever you wish and I will neither hate nor judge you based on your beliefs. I will not say you are wrong and no one has come back from the dead and proven which view is correct, and no one will.

Aha! You say! Jesus supposedly died and came back and you just claimed no one has. There is no proof other than a book with a suspicious past. I believe the message of that book and faith is proof enough for me.

All the same, some nice hard evidence(quiet in the back) would help us all.

Sorry for length.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 9:50, 2 replies)

pity not the fool, for he lives in a better world than you or I
that would be all very jolly, with village fetes, vicars and tea

unfortunately fuckers are slaughtering each other over that claptrap

primitive oppressive dangerous nonsense
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 10:33, closed)

Well put. The things people do in the name of religion is enough that a valid argument for it's outlaw can be made.
I would then be an outlaw were that to happen, but I will not support those assholes who kill, molest, and generally make the world worse in the name of religion. You atheists are generally better Christians than Christians and that is sad.

And I would gladly be the fool to hope for a better place and believe that it is in the after. I hate the thought of nothing after we die. and I'm probably going to hell anyway and if that's the case I'd rather be an atheist and hope for nothing after death.

And absurdly I agree with your last line.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 11:38, closed)

so did you also hate the thought of nothing before you were born?

( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 11:41, closed)

pop
that was my mind. You just blew it with the nothing before i was born. Thanks for changing my life.
(SkoaL, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 13:03, closed)

i doubt theres enough there for a decent pop

( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 14:25, closed)

Wha?
"...and faith is proof enough for me."

I'm glad that you point out that faith is a personal thing, but that sentence makes no sense to me at all.
(flimflam_machine, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:21, closed)