How Belief in a Hereafter Fosters Suicidal Abandonment of the Now
THE
SADDEST, MOST TRAGIC element within human consciousness is its uncanny
and ultimately self-destructive penchant for seducing us into believing
in what the god-peddlers and heaven-hucksters and Prosperity Gospel
indulgence-pushers call “eternal life.”
For
it is that delusion -- that and none other -- that has doomed our
species by convincing it of the ultimate Big-Lie rationalization for
doing nothing whatsoever to improve human life on earth, merely because
“there's a better land a-waiting in the sky.”
Thus
the monstrous falsehood of “eternal life” becomes the excuse for every
one of the infinite horrors our species has ever perpetrated on itself
and its environment; note how individual victims of violence or
misfortune or disease are inevitably described as “gone to a better
place.”
Less
frequently spoken aloud but equally delusional is the notion the
uncountable victims of our species' infinite numbers of genocides are
similarly succored in compensation for their sufferings.
It is all bullshit.
And
it is proven bullshit by the fact the vast majority of persons who live
beyond so-called “near-death experiences” report that nothing --
absolutely nothing -- awaits us beyond death.
Of
the perhaps two-dozen or so people I know who have at one time or
another been clinically dead -- some goddess-focused Pagans, some
Christians, some Jews, some avowed agnostics, a couple of atheists --
only one, an agnostic, ever reported anything apart from total sensory
deprivation: absolute nothingness and utterly empty darkness, each of an
intensity impossible to describe.
Karl
Marx, unquestionably the most daringly perceptive intellectual our
species will ever produce, referred to religion as “the opiate of the
masses.”
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