Except, rkzen, that as a practical matter people behave better if they credit an afterlife -- one with a connection to this life.
It can't help but enlarge one's perspective.
That is why I am not an atheist, nor likely ever to become one. That and it takes just as much mental effort to un-believe as to believe, and for considerably lessened philosophical reward. So I end up figuring atheism for a screwjob.
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