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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the point, if there is no heaven to get "into" - that this life is the only one we have, just as it is for all the other animals on earth and that religion developed at a pre-scientific time that's outmoded now and survives primarily for the financial benefit of people employed in the institutions that have grown up around religion.[/quote]

Why does there have to be a collective point, or purpose.  Individual may feel a strong sense of spirituality and higher purpose, but this doesn't translate into the collective. Our minds aren't connected, our consciousness exists in isolation except through our senses. There may be reasons why humans have compassion, experience love and other emotions, but there is no great purpose. [/quote]

Sounds reasonable to me.  Unfortunately, for the last 2000 or so years, certain religious views have been forced on people - under threat of not only death, but of eternal suffering after death, if you did not follow particular religious beliefs.

This outmoded way of thinking and manipulating society is starting to change.[/quote]

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