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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you seemed genuinely curious at the onset of this thread. Now, it seems like your trying to convince (proselytize?) us.

Some of us are alright with no having a supernatural being to look after us. I don't need to seek out Aristotle or Shakespeare to tell me what to think. I don't need a holy text to tell me right from wrong. I don't need an afterlife to feel hope or happiness. And, I don't need pity for my soul with clogged arteries, or whatever you were trying to say with your analogy a few pages back.

I'm fine with you or anyone else holding religious beliefs that work for you. It doesn't offend or challenge my atheism for others to believe.

[b]Your obsession with the beginning the end of life kind of takes away from all that is here right now.[/b] Right now you should be concerned with improving justice and life. [/quote]

OP here, good evening!

My curiosity continues unabated.  As I have said repeatedly, I appreciate and enjoy PPs points, and know that no one's faith in God ever came from an argument.  The greatest human minds who have ever lived have wrestled with these questions, and I do not belong in their ranks.  Our conversation has veered from personal stories to philosophy to epistemology to theology to biology to physics to genetics to ethics to logic to other disciplines I can't remember right now to snarkiness and back again.  I am an expert in none of these areas.  I have learned so much.  Thank you.

I have been completely honest in all of my posts, about my personal story, my personal faith, and my limitations.  I certainly haven't tried to pitch my story, and I am sure it instigated lots of eye-rolling.  That's fine.  It's just my story.

There is one thing I would like to respond to:  the conclusion that having only this material life to live means you infuse it with more meaning than if you have an eternal life to live, as well.  Just think about that for a sec.  You are able to contemplate the meaning of your life because you are here, around DC.  You were not a female baby born to an impoverished family in India who let you slowly starve to death.  You are not a political dissident in China who was shot in the back of the head.  You are not one of the billions and billions and billions of humans who have lived thwarted, oppressed, enslaved, tormented lives.  I am truly glad that you see your life as a gift, and that you are able to live it exercising your free will.  Most of humanity has not been so gifted.

If death is your release from life, you only have death to worry about.  If death is the beginning of your eternal life, whose character will be determined by the way you lived your material life, your material life becomes eternally important.

Either man is material, and death is the end, or man is material and immaterial, and death is the step into an eternal life.

You could well be right.  Man could be strictly material.  There could be no supernatural reality.  You could be the author of right and wrong.  When you die, you cease to be.

The day will come when you are dead, and I am dead, and if you are right, neither of us will be around to know. [/quote]

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