You forget to add anti-muslim (or likely any other religion that doesn't fit your tastes).
He's a level 5 vegan
You forget to add anti-muslim (or likely any other religion that doesn't fit your tastes).
I was about to say he has a huge ass cross on his shoulder... it's pretty ing obvious unless you're stupid and blind that he's a Christian.
I'm not sure why that's amusing or surprising. I think of many if not most are afraid to die because of how their death would affect those left behind. Life goes on of course but I'd be worried about my family and me no being there to help them with whatever they need.
Also, there's probably an "oh " moment at the end where you wonder if there is a and if you dotted your i's and crossed all the necessary t's to avoid it. I would think even some die hard atheists have some trepidation in the face of imminent death.
And regardless of all that, fearing death seems like it would be a built in survival instinct.
Leviticus 19:28
New International Version (NIV)
28*“‘Do not cut*your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the*Lord.
No one really wants to die in pain tbh. Even less after the thought that such death comes from feeling multiple sharp teeth rows working gracefully as mini saws tearing your flesh apart. Not even those who ain't afraid of death wish to feel that. no.
Fearing death shows a complete lack of faith. That is why I find it amusing people can mock God and religion, yet when death comes for them, they fear it. Why?????? If there is no God, what is there to fear.
One of my favorite songs is a true story about a man on his death bed, telling his wife not to cry. This man had faith in God and didn't fear death or want those remaining to mourn as he believed he was going to a better place and God would continue to provide. This man use to feed the poor and needy in his village. And if it wasn't for said man, the writer and singer of this song would have more than likely died of hunger, along with his mother and brother. And this why the royalties of this song went to man's son who also went on to feed the poor and need in his country. This song is a true testament of Faith.
Not true. I was going to be an Intelligent Officer in the military and believe me I have an EXTREMELY high tolerance to pain. But I will admit I don't want to die, but I knew if I stayed in the military I would have been dead by the time I was 30 or so. I didn't fear death, as long as my death came doing what I believed in and protecting the weak and helpless.
Men who lack faith fear death. PERIOD!!!!!!!
False assumption.
But I know plenty of people of faith that fear death. They're afraid of going to .
Again, my main point about fearing death is about not being there to take care of family or loved ones. Not being there to help with any problems they might face in the future. Not hard to grasp.
^ hopes to be a Christian some day. Someone should tell him how.
Exactly. Faith implies you live your life to avoid just that. They no there LACK OF FAITH while living will lead to this possible scenario in the afterlife. Believing and doing. Faith without works is DEAD.
That's your point of view. Don't generalize. In my opinion, people are frightened more of the pain that might lead to a death or the way they die, than discovering what awaits them after death.
That's not a fear of death, that is just worrying about your family. I am talking about what Blake mentioned. People know there is another life waiting for them in the afterlife. I have seen actual war films of men dying and them saying they didn't want to die. My Dad's father who was a medic in Korea, heard MANY men said this same thing to him as they laid dying on the battlefield. It was an internal fear. My Grandfather also said some men weren't afraid and actually some gave him letters to give to their wives or families. These men in my grandfather unit were Christian and he mentioned that these particular men read their Bibles and prayed a lot. These men had Faith in something greater than themselves.
That is why someone like Paul could quote, "o Death, were is thy sting; grave, where is thy victory."
My father was a red beret and other things as well in the Military, basically what I was going to be. I come a long history of a Military families. Ironically, none of my family ever got killed in combat. But I have heard enough stories and seen enough films to know, men who have faith don't fear death. They don't want it, but they don't fear it.
Meh. It's the fear of the unknown, imo.
Do you want to hear how evolution might also create humans with a fear of death or do you stipulate no argument with the general idea that evolution is true and at worst "consistent" with faith?
OP is a welching got.
You seem to want to use this thread to point out what you were gonna be. You should just start a thread about it instead of muddying up this one.
I bet you still have a breaking point for a torturer to force you to denounce Jesus.
Was this supposed to make sense? Those last two sentences have nothing to do with the first three.
And why would someone without faith fear ? If I didn't believe in the god of a religious framework, why would I believe in any concepts of afterlives in those frameworks?
because he's seen films and red berets and grandpa and other stuff
Dude, CHRISTIANS use to be burned at the Stake and fed to lions, etc. And you know what they were doing, SINGING. Praising God. These people had Faith. I am not Generalizing. We live in a FAITHLESS GENERATION. If you believe the Bible, Jesus said the last generations would be like this.
Jon Hus, one of the first reformationists, also was singing and didn't scream at all while be burnt at the stake.
The problem is, Faith like this is extremely scarce so you just don't see it. During the Roman times, when they use to execute Christians in the Coliseum, and as they were singing, People in the crowd would be converted by the faith those people exhibited. If you believe you are going to heaven when you die, why would you want to stay on Earth. Just saying.
Heaven might be a myth, which is why I initially stated, death will ultimately reveal the truth. But people with ultimate FAITH have proven you wrong. They don't fear death not matter HOW PAINFUL IT CAME.
They don't fear , that is why they live their life like they want. But when they are facing death, they fear it. B/c something inside them (their soul) the afterlife is coming. People talk brave and , like my grandfather, but when death is staring them in the face, they fear IT. Not , but death. Read what I wrote. Some fear , but the vast majority just fear death itself.
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