PragerFU: The Afterlife, Part 3a
I've been an atheist for more than 26 years, but it took this PragerU video on the afterlife to get me to realize just how awful — and central to so much of the truly horrible shit religion brings the world — this idea of the afterlife actually is. I used to think that Salvation by grace — the idea that what you believe is more important than what you do, was the most dangerous idea. I'm now convinced that the afterlife takes the cake.
Part 3a goes into the two direct ways the idea in general fills our lives with a bit more immeasurable injustice and suffering. Part 3b, gets into the specifics of the Christian belief in Hell and salvation by grace. That will be up tomorrow, and it's a bit more hard-hitting, whereas this one is a little more fun.
I can't say I've enjoyed making any videos as much as these two. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Youz guyz are the BEST!!! B
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When you really think about it, who would want an afterlife anyway? Even if it were all "sweetness and light," devoid of immeasurable injustice and suffering. Thought experiment: try to recall for a moment the most memorable, blissful, stressless vacation you've ever had. Got it? Are you there in your mind? Now imagine that you will be there… for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever… for "time and all eternity." The never-ending boredom alone would be HELL! And what would you be like? Have believers ever really thought about what it would mean to be immortal? I once posted a —yes, typically verbose and pedantic— essay with a whole series of common sense questions about "god" as an immortal being, and one can easily apply those same questions to oneself in an afterlife: <a href="http://bit.ly/NM6CQJ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/NM6CQJ</a> The entire notion is downright illogical, ludicrous, laughable… stupid.
We need someone to write a PragerU "Go DEVILS" fight song!