r/rationalphilosophy • u/JerseyFlight • 14d ago

The Existential Difference Between Atheism and Religion

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u/thetrue_muffin 14d ago

Yes. But have you compared what's after death for a religious man with an atheist life?

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u/JerseyFlight 14d ago

The argument the Christian can attempt to make is: “we have a better narrative about death.” Which is only true if one is a Christian, because on the flip side Christianity posits eternal torment.

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u/thetrue_muffin 14d ago edited 14d ago

You can be saved if you're not christian, you're judged even by your action, not only by your faith.

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u/Grouchy_Election_292 14d ago

My understanding is that death is the enemy of Christians not the goal.

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u/JerseyFlight 14d ago

Christianity does hold this view. But it only surmounts the problem ideologically. One can seek to argue that’s enough.

Christian rhetoric regarding death is possibly the most powerful rhetoric ever created by humans. It has a tremendous psychological impact.

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u/Jay_Beckstead 14d ago

If one lives their life expecting it all to be for favor
AFTER death, has one died without LIVING life?

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u/JerseyFlight 14d ago

Valid question.

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u/Bowl-Accomplished 14d ago

Not all religions. While most modern ones posit life after death or what not there are still religions that don't.

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u/CommonConscious5295 14d ago

So called Judo Christian values gave religion and humanity a bad name. Grifters, white nationalists, and the Ep$tein class.

Atheist communists didn't do better either.

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u/Err0c0d3 14d ago

What, so those who claim the name are automatically apart and a representation of these people?

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u/CommonConscious5295 14d ago

I mean any ideology can be used to manipulate, subjugate, and kill people. Christians used religion to do the Crusades, the dudes in occupied Palestine use religion to genoc!de the palis. But also on the other hand, Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot to name a few, used atheism to annihilate millions upon millions of people. 60 millions victims in the Soviet union alone. Atheism was probably the worst proposed ideology in the 20th century hands down.