Reply #58: Seems quite simple to me. [View All]

[immoderate]

If people are good, everyone benefits.
If people are bad, everyone suffers.

This simple truth requires absolutely no faith in anything beyond what we can experience. It is, as the founders would say, self evident. The churches can give you nothing except what they deliver here on earth. Hopefully, it's a good pot luck dinner, and some comfort when you are sick.

As for what happens after, no one knows. Those near death experiences have been replicated in the laboratory and seem to have something to do with oxygen deprivation to the brain. But people will believe whatever comforts them.

Congratulations for your self determination.

--IMM