Fourtyrulz

Manx, you're absolutely right about faith in an afterlife being nothing more than a means of control. Promise people back in the middle ages subservience to the rule of the church in exchange for an eternal paradise, who wouldn't accept it? Afterall, no one has come back to life crying "BULLSHIT!" have they?

How many people cried Armageddon before the 2000 new year?
How many people cried Rapture before the 1000 new year?
How many civilizations have cried Eschaton during their time?
How many were right? None, they are either living a lie or blissfully dead.

Do you honestly think that Jesus invented the end times myth?

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the·o·ry - a working hypothesis that is considered probable based on experimental evidence or factual or conceptual analysis and is accepted as a basis for experimentation.
faith - Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
- Merriam-Webster's dictionary