While I find many aspects of Christianity morally reprehensible I do have to admit that the effects it produces in practice are both pro-social and necessary. The misery of this life is justified by the promises of the next. What is there left for us when you strip that away? You wake up every day, you work, you sleep, you repeat it until you die. All the happiness of the world is soured by the knowledge that it is temporary and will be lost to time. I cannot enjoy the present when the past and the future are not mine. I need to claim them somehow and make them mine but I have no way to do so, as religious people do. I can derive day-to-day purpose from my basic instincts that push me to survive, but I cannot rationally justify them. The experiences of other people, financial success, fame or recognition do not mean anything when everyone dies and human civilization is unavoidably doomed to be but a brief blip of light in an otherwise dark and silent universe.
>>18389530You dont need Christianity for eternity. You were born once, theres probably nothing stopping it from happening again after you die. I personally think the void is preferable to endless cycles of life though
>>18389530desu , that trasendental power and truth is something that spirituality itself trades in , is just that cristianity promises to fix the problem directly, while you are more so on your lonesome otherwise(*).so you can still to choose a more edgy religion for example.
>>18389732>cristianity promises to fix>promises
>>18389753>promisesyea whats the problem anon.
Everything is recorded, decisions in life do matter, and there is life after death. I can tell you that these beliefs are much more lightweight than believing that everything is pointless.
>>18389837no, no, and no
