warpus
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Yeah, I don't think extreme one-party marxism is what Lennon quite imagined as a solution to these problems..
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Narz
keeping it real
Yes. Belief is heaven takes one out of the moment, its a coping mechanism. I'm sure its invention was designed to placate the disenfranchised. In aboriginals cultures with much less significant social/political hierarchy you don't here much about heaven & hell, reward & punishment in the afterlife. I haven't done a through study so such ideas may be stressed in some of them but I've never seen it.
If I were an ancient King in a highly stratified world I would love for my subjects to believe "blessed are the weak/timid/downtrodden/etc. for they will be kings in heaven". And for someone who may have no way out of such poverty it might also be somewhat comforting to believe such a thing.
However, I don't think these values are adaptive anymore. For example, from what I read, George W Bush is an evangelical. Why should he care about environmental degradation when he believes in judgement day coming soon anyway.
Christianity (and most modern religion) is divorced from the Earth & belief that some abstraction "above" is more important than flesh & blood on the ground may be the death of us all.
Snorrius
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Well, that is the difference between dreams and reality.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Maybe you're not a dreamer.
Not all religions have a concept of an afterlife.Well, he did toss heaven.
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