In response to a response to the article Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World from the June 2009 Scientific American Magazine, which can be found here. A user by the name of Osler5 writes: "And I am happy to be a believer. My life on earth is joyful for I am contented about God's creation and that I have a trustworthy promise to hold on. Oh and your life as a nonbeliever on earth may be as good too: freedom and freedom you call them. But after this life, what will come? If God truly is absent, both of us will not lose anything. It's just unbearable emptiness of nonexistence. But if God does present, I will claim His promises and what about you, my friend? Probably then, believing about God's existence may really confer survival advantage."
Survival advantage? Since when has death ever been associated with the idea of surviving? Survival is something that has to do with staying alive and carrying on in the best possible way given the circumstances of your surroundings. I believe in making decisions based on what is known, and I feel that objecting one's self to certain rules and regulations based on a common uncertainty of death will ultimately hinder a "believer" when it comes to certain situations in which their survival instincts might be based on their God rather than their surroundings. If God is truly absent, I have lost NOTHING; and the believer has lost EVERYTHING associated with that belief.
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