Why do religious people have such trouble accepting the finality of death?

Question

I mean most religions have slaughtered enough peoplein the process of establishing themselves...if they really believed in an afterlife I don't think they would kill so casually because those desenters they killed are going to be waiting on the other side you'd think.

Outlaw393: I'm afraid the finality of death applies to all of us, personal beliefs don't change a thing.

Answer 1

Let's see...Man's biggest fear is of dying (built into our genes)...I have an idea...let's promise life everlasting, and collect money for the promise...we won't have to work any longer, just sit back, get paid for promises...there are enough idiots in the world to make a handsome living..what do you think? ??

Answer 2

Accepting the finality of death is easier said than done.

Every culture and civilization in the history of the world has had some sense of an afterlife. For some, the "finality" of death, complete oblivion, was on the same level as "hell" is in popular culture today - the ultimate and final form of punishment.

It's easy to say "I accept death," in any context, afterlife or no, but when you're really staring down the bullet of the end of you're life, it really, well... isn't. Even with the hope of an afterlife, it's arguably the single most profound, if not downright horrific, moment a soul can experience. I

Just as it's entirely one thing to say, "I accept God as my maker," and another to actually have to go and face in light of the life you have lead, so too is it two different things to accept oblivion and actually embrace it at the end.

Answer 3

Many would say to die in such a way shows glory for God.
Whether it is true or not, I do not know. I wonder often what our lives would be like today if such things had never occurred. However, even Pagans would pit one god against the other. Victory in warfare was often a favorable sign that God is on your side. I guess it's a primitive notion.

Answer 4

No blood on my hands...

No I don't have trouble accepting the finality of death... but by that do you mean that when your dead your dead? or that we will go to an afterlife?

Lucky Heaven is a wonderful place filled with Glory and Grace, I'm gonna see my saviour's face 'cause Heavan is a wonderful place - song I learnt in Sunday School....

Answer 5

Religions have not slaughtered anyone. PEOPLE have slaughtered other people. That would be like saying that communism killed fifty million people during Stalin's rule.

And as for the "finality" of death, there's no way to know for sure. I don't believe that death is final. And if it is...oh well.

Answer 6

1) You're obviously an atheist.

2) There is no finality to death to those of us who believe. There's a life after death. And it's existence has been proven time and time again.

3) If death is so final, how do you explain ghosts and spirits? In the imaginations of people? if that's true, why do so many people see them?

My question for you is, how can you be an atheist, you haven't seen the entire universe, have you? So how can you say if there's a God or not? You can't.

Answer 7

I liked the other poster's response who said something like, "why do you have such trouble accepting the nonfinality of death?"

I find your statement just as unbelievable as those of religious people.

Answer 8

Who knows

Answer 9

hahaha i never thought abought it that way...it just a way to cope with the fact that were going to die and some people would kill to preserve that belief and ill catholic and that seems to be one of my concers too lol (kinda hypocritical)

Answer 10

to be fair, i think we all do. i think that's why religion and man-made gods have been so successful: they're preying upon our natural fear of mortality.