Do you believe; and why?

[Dill]

(05-08-2019, 05:05 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes.  They are definitely better off not knowing as long as there are no other bad consequences.

I am not talking about a type of ignorance that can lead to bad consequences.  Does it really hurt a person in this lifetime to believe that they are going to a better place when they die or that they will get to see again their loved ones they have lost?

Maybe it is easy for you because you live a relatively comfortable life.  But what if your daily existence was third world poverty where you work like a slave all day and still had to watch your children die for lack of food or medicine?  Would those people be better off believing that there was no reward in the hereafter?

Yes.  There is a reason why those "comforting" aspects of religious belief have been woven into the maintenance of class hierarchies.


Fred, have you ever read Plato's Republic, or at least the first two books?