Believers basically think it's easier and smarter to simply "believe," and to try like hell to get everyone else to "believe," that our eternal soul necessarily survives death, and is judged for what it did while it remained encased in the avatar of a human meat puppet.
They also think that any attempt to suggest otherwise, or even just question such a narrative at all, only ever contributes to immorality, because people then refuse to believe this, and as such, they should be punished for heresy or blasphemy.
And when the atheist asks, "why not just teach people how to accept that we have no idea what, if anything, happens after we die, and focusing instead on how we can all better learn to live together on this little rock of ours while we're alive?", the Christian replies that this would only lead to war and violence of every sort and degree.
This answer makes perfect sense, of course, if you simply ignore all of recorded human history.
They also think that any attempt to suggest otherwise, or even just question such a narrative at all, only ever contributes to immorality, because people then refuse to believe this, and as such, they should be punished for heresy or blasphemy.
And when the atheist asks, "why not just teach people how to accept that we have no idea what, if anything, happens after we die, and focusing instead on how we can all better learn to live together on this little rock of ours while we're alive?", the Christian replies that this would only lead to war and violence of every sort and degree.
This answer makes perfect sense, of course, if you simply ignore all of recorded human history.
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