Faith offers the comfort that, despite all conceivable evidence to the contrary, death is not the end. Sadly, the ability of an idea to comfort us is no measure of its truth; if anything, our most comforting ideas are the ones we ought to be most careful to interrogate and verify.
Death, and the fear of no afterlife, are often cited by believers as the reason they still cling to beliefs for which our human tools of understanding - the sciences - offer no support. If there were more atheists who could write with the simple confidence of Roger Ebert, there would be fewer relying on fantasy for solace. This is beautiful: http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/
Death, and the fear of no afterlife, are often cited by believers as the reason they still cling to beliefs for which our human tools of understanding - the sciences - offer no support. If there were more atheists who could write with the simple confidence of Roger Ebert, there would be fewer relying on fantasy for solace. This is beautiful: http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/
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