Ustwo... first you suggested that we need to take an "uneducated" approach to this question. This suggests that anyone who is educated cannot grasp the concept of "afterlife". You went on to say that with no concept of "afterlife" or the implied reward/punishment that an afterlife provides, "all hell would break loose".
Given the context that you are an atheist, and by suggestion, an educated man what I am I to conclude except that you are suggesting that the afterlife and it means is used to control the uneducated and that you as an educated person do not need such constraints.
I was jumping to no conclusions that your post didn't ask me to make.
As for your power and police analogy... we were subject to the big blackout here and there was no increase in crime that night. In fact, my experience was just the opposite.
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