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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's affirmed my Christianity many times. I realize the people trying to talk me out of my relationship with God are from the other evil side and I'm not interested in that side at all. [/quote]

I am an atheist.  I am not evil and I am not trying to talk you out of your relationship with God any more than I'm trying to talk you out of your relationship with the tooth fairy, if you still believe in it.

I do think it's silly for an adult to believe in anything supernatural and will continue to say so.  You might be very intelligent in other ways, but still believe in God.  Many intelligent people do.  I once believed in God and I'm intelligent.  I'm no longer believe inGod, but I''m still just as intelligent. I'm more informed now.  [b]I've accepted my life as being finite and have given up childish ideas about living forever[/b][u].[/quote]

Wait until technology makes it possible to live potentially forever. What would that do to peoples' belief systems? [/quote]

Hopefully, it will mean that people discard their religious beliefs, because technology, i.e., science, is the reason it's possible to live forever.  Not religion.   Advancements in science have made life easier and longer.  Religion never has.

Religion only allows for everlasting life in a fantasy land called heaven.  And you have to die before you can get there and you only get there if you believe in God and have died in good standing in whatever of the many earthly religions you belonged to while alive.[/quote]
Plenty of people are religious without the idea that it means you will live forever. Seriously, the bias toward evangelical Christianity to the exclusion of all else on this forum is annoying.[/quote]

Please tell us the sects of Christianity that do not believe in life after death.  I'm not familiar with any.[/quote]

DP, but PP said "religious" not "Christian." You literally just made PP's point - that posters on this forum (IMHO the atheists specifically are the big offenders here) seem obsessed with equating "religion" with "Christianity."

I'd argue that many eastern religious don't have a concept of life after death. Reincarnation != eternal life exactly, and certainly the merging of your life force with the universe is different than having a distinct soul forever and ever.[/quote]

Actually you are incorrect. PP said "...the bias toward evangelical Christianity to the exclusion of all else on this forum is annoying." So I asked for the "sects of  Christianity that do not believe in life after death."  Personally, I do not know of any and I do know that Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, and Lutherans and Presbyterians  believe in life after death.  Do you know of any Christian sects that don't believe in life after death?  If so, please advise.[/quote]
PP here. My point was actually that religious =/= Christian. I specified evangelical Christianity, because beyond just citing Christianity, posters here often specifically cite evangelical theology, probably because it's the loudest. But, no, I wasn't distinguishing mainstream Christianity from evangelical. I was distinguishing other religions from Christianity, which this forum never seems to do. Maybe this rephrasing will make it clearer: "the bias toward evangelical Christianity to the exclusion of all [other religions] on this forum is annoying.[/quote]

Understood.   Now, could you address the issue of: "sects of  Christianity that do not believe in life after death." Thanks[/quote]

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