You Too Can Conquer Death With Only Two Easy Steps. Eternal Life Is Just A Sentence Away!

“I accept Jesus’ blood sacrifice with all my heart. I love you Jesus”.

Or

“No god but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger”

Now, pick wisely, friends. My only true friends can be ones that choose the right sentence, of course. Common sense says that you should state both for full-coverage and full-guarantee of your eternal existence. But it sure beats saying neither, perhaps. Or you should choose just one, and life with the hope that you’re right, as the vast majority of the believers do. Either way, a magic sentence does guarantee you eternal pleasures, so do it now and save yourself.

A problem with religion is that at times it’s hard to realise sarcasm when you see it. For if a serpant had a conversation with the world’s first woman, Siddharta Gautama travelled between the heaven and earth realms in only 4 human minutes, and Muhammad split the moon two only to reconnect it together, why shouldn’t we consider the ludicrous as being serious in the mind of the religious? I am reluctant to ever say “could anything be stupider than this” when discussing a religious concept, because there most likely is, only I haven’t read it yet or it’s been lost in the vast ocean of non-sense I seem to find myself wrecked in at times.

 

 

In a previous post I mentioned that the root of all religions is the fear of death. This is true. But I didn’t approach it from an other angle, which is how do we overcome the fear of death? One is religion, and last night as I stayed awake in deep thought I realised that having offspring is the second way we handle death.

Procreation is the way all species cope with death. Our death is inevitable, so we then turn to what is the closest way we can keep living on. So we have offspring.

Parents have an uncanny bond with their children. The parent can well feel that the child is ‘a part of me’. By having a child, the parent’s genes will live on after death. This may be a reason why we have an instinct to reproduce.

When this didn’t make enough sense, then of course religion started to appear. While biology can only partly keep you living on, theology will give you the full conquering of death as you currently are. Perhaps this is rooted in the ego. It certainly preys on the inert fear we have of death, causing us to misfire our natural desire to stay alive by appealing to our instinct to have more children.