Even Worse Bus Ads: Britain Secularist Society

[David E]

Originally Posted by Alex

Personally, it would make me very happy to believe that if my child dies before its first birthday that 1989-era Elle MacPherson will come lounge about my apartment in a state of undress and grant me eternal life here on earth.

And from the other thread:
“b) there is part of me with a purpose that transcends my physical health so I'm just going to lie here and die. If given the opportunity, I will give the gift of such transcendent purpose to that cutie over there by having unprotected sex. If god doesn't want her to die, he'll protect her. If he doesn't, she's just experiencing her purpose. Oh the joy of giving that to her.”

Alex, isn’t it a weak way to make your case to make absurd strawman arguments that you yourself say are not plausible?

Why do you present Elle Mc Pherson as the absurd alternative to no afterlife when you know there are other plausible belief systems such as karma and reincarnation that reflect the cycles seen observed by science in nature and present a rich and compelling understanding of the universe for millions of people?

And in my African AIDS example, why do you use the unlikely example of a moral idiot-philanderer to represent the religious guy when you know that religious people are more likely to be monogamous; and it turns out that the religious practice of circumcision is now being recommended by health officials for adults to combat AIDS?