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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]for people who "never bought it" even though you were exposed to religion as children, how did you deal with the fact that no religion means no afterlife?

That is, how did you deal with the fact that life is finite; that you would die and that would be the end of it?[/quote]

No religion doesn't mean no afterlife.

We were all dead before we were born. [/quote]

yes, but before we were born, we didn't know what life was like.  Know we know that we will lose it, at some point.

Religious people - some of them, at least -- believe they are going to heaven when they die.  It gives them something to look forward to, even if it doesn't work out that way in the end.[/quote]

But some of them also believe they, and others, could wind up in Hell or Purgatory, sometimes for arbitrary reasons.

Growing up Catholic, one of the most disturbing things I learned was that Catholics believe babies who die before baptism live for eternity in Purgatory. That is super messed up.

I also remember my sister, who became born again in college, explaining that Gandhi went to hell because he didn't accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Can you imagine thinking Gandhi is in Hell being tortured right now?

Oh, but Catholics also believe you can buy your way out of Purgatory if you tithe enough money to the church. Cool cool cool.

Yeah, thinking that we probably just all go back to being dirt after we die sounds pretty good, actually. [/quote]

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