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@Diamond said:

" It can make me uncomfortable when I'm around people speaking of their deeply held beliefs like they're facts. "

Indeed

The concept of afterlife always interested me. Not because I believe in it, but because it shows the extent to which we humans are afraid of death.
 
There is a delusion that "because it's my faith, it's true" that our society seems to accept. For that reason I don't usually discuss religious beliefs, nor do I think much about my own. There's nothing to be gotten from it. If someone wants to believe that, upon death, they are carried to the clouds if they're good, or taken to a fiery pit if they're bad, I don't mind.

but all the more reason to make heaven on earth..you would have to exterminate all conservatives but hell that'd be fun.

He doesn't know, he just THINKS he knows. No body will know until they die what is really after death. The closest we can get is people who have been died and came back like in surgeries etc. But even then there's still no way to know for sure what they saw was real or just brain spasms and  chemicals going off just before they die.
 
It doesn't offend me when people talk about their beliefs, as i believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even if they are wrong. I do how ever always feel sorry when i read/hear people who talk about their religion as the only thing out there and everyone else is wrong and evil. Mainly because those people have already drank the cool-aid and have been indoctrinated into the brainwashed cult known as religion. No matter what you say or how much proof you give them they just cant open them selves up to possibility out side of what their cult of choice has taught them. Being brainwashed into a certain set of beliefs where your are ostracized and demonized for asking questions is a fate worse then death. Not to mention scary as all fuck to think about what this world would become if groups like them had the power to rule over us.

Well it depends on what kind of cool aid drinker he is. If he has children does he teach them that the world is 12,000 years old and dinosaur fossils were put here by god to test our faith?Would he like to shoot abortion doctors dead?.If not then its just a quirk he has, try not to debate him as it will drive you insane.

Religion as a whole anoys me due to this. There just isnt a decent discussion you can have with those people without them hammering on their book based on no facts whatsoever. It's the whole never ending Evolution vs creation debate that cannot be settled unless religious people learn to question their book for the lack of facts it has, or come up with the miraculous, factual proof. [aka not "the earth is here, i have my proof"]
 
That aside, aslong as they don't press it in my face they can believe in any invisible floating entity in the sky.
But i'd expect them to return the favor. So if i suddenly converted to martians they should honor that. Which they won't.
Just look at how most religious deal with other religions.