“Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”
Czesław Miłosz
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.”
Frantz Fanon
“……..the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”——–Czesław Miłosz
Yep, that’s right. No Heaven, no Hell, no ‘judgment day’, no nothing. All you and I will be after we are dead is a decomposing corpse. HomoSapiens have no soul, just sentience, and that ends with our last breath. That’s it.
Lysander
You seem very assure of yourself. Are you stating fact, or opinion?