Salutatio Mark!
13-Jan-98, Mark Bloss wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: Back to Apes
 MB> > >Richard Meic wrote to Frank Masingill about Back to Apes
 RM>> Many people find it hard to face simple non-existence after
 RM>> death. They must have something to turn to and comfort
 RM>> themselves.  You won't get much debate out of me with this,
 RM>> because this is basically all I have to say on the matter. ;)
 MB> Surely you don't suppose for one instance that every person who
 MB> does not believe in non-existence after death - does not believe
 MB> it because they need something to turn to and comfort themselves?
Of course I was being very general.  You should know by now that I would
never make a statement like that about the whole of any group.
 MB> How very narrow-minded of you, if you believe this.  
     
Oh, yes it would be VERY narrow minded if I did think that way of all
theists.
 MB> There are
 MB> myriad reasons why people will believe something.  I would hasten
 MB> to add, that I believe all those who believe in non-existence
 MB> after death must believe this because they are afraid of the
 MB> afterlife.  ;)
I would hazard to say that for most religious people it is because of
fear of non-existence after death.  Perhaps I may go as far as to say it
is the fundamentalists (every one I met, anyway) that feel this way.
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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