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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] What most people in the public don't seem to question or dissect is the reason why the world religions work and keep staying attractive to the human mind, ever since we took shape 50000 years ago. We are conditioned by genes and our baby environment to love and deify our parents, lords of food and kisses, from age 0-4 or so. When you take away all the window-dressing from a given religion (historical names, leaders and stack of principles), all religions take the psychological mother/father-construct, usually placed at the center of every person's worldview and mind, and assimilates/copies that point of belonging into another being, which is made out to be something like your mom/dad but greater, the übermom/dad. It's so easy to tap into, because everyone wants to return to the bosom and let someone else be responsible for the universe, life and death, to be the little sidekick and reap all the benefits, spiritual food and kisses. Regarding the Meaning of Life and the Afterlife, my favorite Heaven-refuting observation is the one where the old lady asks her priest/rabbi/whatever, "When I die and go to heaven, which one of my dead husbands will I be allowed to sleep with?" Taking it a step further, if a person was very God-fearing and faithful their whole life, a real contribution to the community, a good bean, and personally always loved another person from afar, who didn't love them back or didn't know about them, would he/she be "united" with this love interest in heaven? Would that love interest not want to be with its own spouse or love interest? Would a copy of the love interest be made for the first person, like in a Holodeck? The idea of Heaven is so infantile it's scary, even moreso than creation myths. Alien religion, that sounds like a real nice meaty sandwich to bite into, would be fun to live long enough to encounter it, just to see all the spiritual leaders of Earth go through the roof. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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