truthseeker,
A question for you...
Do you prefer to be cold hearted and obscessively rational like you are now or joyful and simple as Sir. Loone is?
Have you ever played the game of lemmings? I think they even sing in their happiness as they jump of the cliff and die because of their stupidity.
Life is not about being happy or being in love or loving, it is about survival. Life is often very harsh and cruel, and I don’t mean the cruelty of people but the cruelty of disease, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, meteorites, etc. Love and being happy won’t solve difficult problems. Those issues require intelligence, hard work, and the ingenuity of man. This is reality.
Religions especially Christianity are afraid of reality and refuse to believe that it exists, instead they invent fantasies that make people think they are to blame for the problems of the world and that they are powerless to change things. And then people are told not to worry since they can still survive but in an afterlife of paradise.
So is it any wonder that so many people, largely ignorant who cannot think for themselves, decide to follow religion.
The choice seems clear – (1) work hard and deal with difficult subjects like reason and logic and strive to solve terrible problems like cancer, diabetes, aids, heart disease, etc., or (2) believe that a wonderful all powerful super being will pull them away to paradise if they should ever die.
A no-brainer right? The easy choice is religion every time.
What atheists, humanists, and other free-thinkers are trying to tell you is that you need to wake-up to reality and don’t give in to the false hopes of religion. Life is hard and it needs all our attention. Love is fine when it occurs and happiness is fine when you can find it, but
reality isn’t fair and it isn’t just, and it requires logic and intelligence to solve the problems of this world.
So stop throwing your “love solves everything” gibberish at us and get down to solving some real problems. Unless of course you can prove there is a god or there is an afterlife, because at this time no one has been able to show any credible scrap of evidence that any such things can or have ever existed, despite people looking for the past several thousands of years.
Cris