^ because i'm the one who's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way i want to.
also...
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Originally Posted by Odyshape
But if you truly believed in your religion wouldn't you believe it was for the benefit of others if they followed it therefore inclining you to pressure others into others?
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depends on why you're religious in the first place. if it's because you're looking for the
right answer and think you've found it in the teachings and practices of X religion then yeah proselytizing would make sense, but i'd still think you were an idiot, not because you believe in a deity but because you believe that it's somehow 'right'.
on the other hand, if you're religious because you've contemplated your self to a point that happens to be in line with an organized religion's dogma then i can't see why you'd be expecting others to reap the same rewards and benefits without having traveled your path. which just loops back to that Hendrix quote i started with.