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Religion or Death?

applecorped

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In this thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127950,

I was surprised at how many people would rather die than have to live their life subscribing to a particular religion.

What is about religion/s that would make someone rather be dead than have to practice and/or follow certain beliefs, rituals, etc.? Would life be that unbearable having to deal with that?


(p.s. I'm not religious at all. I do not believe in god/s. I would rather live though.)
 
I voted death.

I always vote the most silly response to silly questions as that is what they deserve.
 
applecorped said:
In this thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127950,

I was surprised at how many people would rather die than have to live their life subscribing to a particular religion.

What is about religion/s that would make someone rather be dead than have to practice and/or follow certain beliefs, rituals, etc.? Would life be that unbearable having to deal with that?


(p.s. I'm not religious at all. I do not believe in god/s. I would rather live though.)
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Some would argue that subscribing to an ideology that is so abhorrent to you isn't living
 
Let's see... a life where any expression of doubt is suppressed as being demonic influence, where any unique opinion is met with scorn, where one must either lie to oneself or lie to others every breathing moment... I'd rather die than go back to that.
 
Having to go to church is like dying inside a little, each time.
Its not so much the religion; its the church thing.
 
Pah, as I said in the other thread, they would have to catch me before they can kill me.

On a more serious note, almost all of the religions you listed can cause serious problems if you are one of the female persuasion. Why would I want to endorse a belief system that insists I am inherently inferior?
 
I'd fake a religious belief and start an underground atheist movement. I'll leave martyrdom to the religious.
 
quarky said:
Having to go to church is like dying inside a little, each time.
Its not so much the religion; its the church thing.
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Ehh. I must have been asleep for those parts. Mostly, religion for me was rote memorization and boring stultification.
 
Hokulele said:
Why would I want to endorse a belief system that insists I am inherently inferior?
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Indeed, why?

Especially when you and/or anyone else can - repeatedly - use the scientific method to show it's not inherent at all...


Rather, its learned behaviour
















:p
 
shadron said:
Ehh. I must have been asleep for those parts. Mostly, religion for me was rote memorization and boring stultification.
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And?

Isn't rote 'learning' a subset of boring? :confused:

Also... isn't boring a subset of death?
 
You're right, but it was still rote memorization and boring stultification.
 
applecorped said:
In this thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127950,

I was surprised at how many people would rather die than have to live their life subscribing to a particular religion.
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Note how the scenario was presented.

If you are not religious already and you were in a position wherein you had to choose a mainstream religion under penalty of death, what would you pick?
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This entity already has my life in its hands, and can on a whim, put me to death today for not choosing the right religion. Tomorrow, it can put me to death for wearing the wrong colored shoes, for not singing on pitch, for failing to yield right of way, and so on.

My exercise of choice is to confront that tyranny with

"If that's how you are going to be about it, I am a walking dead man. Cut to the chase, kill me now, you don't get to eff with me any more."

It is their pleasure in effing with me that I am going to deny them by choosing death. You fight with the tools at hand.

DR
 
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Darth Rotor said:
Note how the scenario was presented.


This entity already has my life in its hands, and can on a whim, put me to death today for not choosing the right religion. Tomorrow, it can put me to death for wearing the wrong colored shoes, for not singing on pitch, for failing to yield right of way, and so on.

My exercise of choice is to confront that tyranny with

"If that's how you are going to be about it, I am a walking dead man. Cut to the chase, kill me now, you don't get to eff with me any more."

It is their pleasure in effing with me that I am going to deny them by choosing death. You fight with the tools at hand.

DR
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Nice answer.

Couldn't you just lie though and then either run away or kill this entity at a later date?
 
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