Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Things I Wonder #4

Why are people obsessed with where they think they're going to go after they die? 

Can you really feel that much better being told where you'll end up? Is it really that essential to know? 

Being told that I'll come back as a horse or a cow or never coming back (and going to a hot place or even a place with roads paved in gold) doesn't really affect the way I live my life. So why do we insist on having religions tell us (when they couldn't possibly know themselves) where people go to when they die?

I guess we're fickle. 

I mean, it may comfort people to think that bad people are punished by a higher being, but at the risk of there being no higher being, I guess the justice system needs to be stricter after all.

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