Quote: (02-25-2019 07:55 AM)griffinmill Wrote:
I'm amazed that certain high profiles figures on the right believe in God. It's something I reject totally. Ben Shapiro is a case in point. Advocating for rationality in almost every aspect of life, and uses very forensic arguments against deranged leftists who want to argue against science and biology. Yet he believes in a supernatural entity watching us from the sky.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a cultural Christian and I want to live in a world that espouses Christian principles - but I stop at believing in the traditional idea of God.
Most on the right are very anti-Islam (as am I) but, crucially, if you're a believer like Shapiro and Prager then you have to concede that it's just as likely that it's Allah watching over us as the Judeo-Christian god these conservatives believe in.
If you don't believe in God, then do you believe in Heaven? There has been some studies that show in Near death experiences people have experienced a afterlife. Whether that is the brain or body coping with death or something that can survive in the spiritual realm as opposed to the physical realm. But Heaven being real does not directly impact any specific religion or christian belief or other religion. No mortal man can truly know what goes on in the afterlife. Is the idea of Heaven directly tied to religion? Or is it possible to believe and experience Heaven without being religious?