yes. i think my job sucks. i don’t even know why i’m still here. disoriented pinay in pinas

If this were true, heaven would be a nearly exact duplicate of your city.

Since life in your or my city hardly feels like heaven, there is something wrong with this idea.

It is that being a good person and trying not to harm anyone does not cut it. We are hardly good in ourselves, and do harm other people most of the time. That we are blind to the fact does not change the results. That’s how we get the cities we have, and the States, and Countries.

Are we all going to heaven? Thank goodness for a purgatory.

The problem with humanity is that we are capable of understanding our own mortality. Unlike other life-forms going about their daily struggles to survive on instincts, we know that it is inevitable that we will die. And since we have relationships with other humans, it hurts us when they die. Not only that, I think we fear our own death and the unknown of what happens when we die and what happens to our loved ones before us and those we leave behind. Therefore, the after-life aspects of religion are there as a security blanket to cover all of these fears and questions.

Of course, not just anybody can go there. They make it out to be a reward system so that our lives here maintain a certain level of morality. It also justifies why it is okay that Kings are rich and we are dirt poor. In the end we will be all equal. Heaven sounds like Communism to me. How ironic.

Even though I am atheist, I totally respect religion. I think most atheists are damaged goods and put all their efforts against it. I am not a separation of church and state kind of person, mostly because that is a misunderstood statement. It is not to protect the state against the church, but to keep the church from being controlled by the state.

Don’t forget, our first freedom in the 1st Amendment is not speech… it is freedom of religion.

Mankind, when left to our own devices seeks personal gain. That’s just the way it is. Some times it’s more ruthless than others. For example, if given the chance, anyone of us would chose to provide 100% for our family instead of providing 100% for a stranger’s family. Does that make you a bad person or unworthy of a happy after life? No.

Anyone who’s ever raised a child knows that people are naturally bad and learn to be good. If you’ve ever watched a child lie, when no lie has been told to them, or cheat, when they don’t yet know what cheating is, or sneak candy, when they’ve never witnessed sneakiness, you know that people have to learn to be good. That’s my theory anyways, and as much as I hate to say it, I have a more dismal outlook. For me, I NEED to believe in a happier, perfect after life because I refuse to believe that life on earth is as good as it gets.