everything is pointless. Okay, so she rejects God because she's angry that in her mind God made her kill her daughter. Why does it matter if in her mind they just go straight to heaven anyway? Why did it matter that she killed her daughter? Why should we bother to live at all if we're only focused on heaven. That makes life kind of pointless. I think we're meant to live our lives with purpose. I do believe in heaven, but I think we can get to focused on that and forget to live here on earth.
I agree, and I'm not particularly religious myself. If anything I'm an agnostic with one foot stamped firmly on the non-believer camp, and the other only hovering above the believer camp.
However, for many people who have been dealt a bad hand in life, or have not been given many chances after things have gone wrong, the belief that they'll get another chance or some type of salvation in heaven is a self-sustaining one. They may be living a complete folly, but so what? The belief is what keeps them going and if they're on their deathbed believing that everything they suffered was 'worth it' because they're going to heaven why would anyone wish to ruin that for them? Atheists pride themselves on rationality, but can't people see the rationality in letting people for whom the belief in God/Heaven makes them happy persist with that belief. How's convincing them that they're 'idiots' and that this is all there is, especially if 'all there is' in their case isn't very much, going to help them? I personally don't see the 'rationality' in seeking to destroy some people's 'irrational' beliefs.
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jennygerms21-226-534587
10 years ago
Thank you for a well thought out response, and I agree with you, especially the last part.
I'm a believer myself and belief in something bigger is very sustaining when hard times hit. My gripe is not at all with her belief in God, or that there is something better waiting for us.
I just meant that from the movie's, or really the main character's point of view, she was only living for heaven anyway, so why was she so mad that her girl got there first by a few days or so if the world was so pointless anyway? The point being that of course it should matter, but she was so disconnected from life it would seem like she would think otherwise.
I've heard a saying that we can get too focused on heaven to do any earthly good. Yea the world is hard, and more so for some than others. But life isn't just about getting into heaven. The world might end tomorrow for all anyone knows, but that doesn't mean we stop living and trying to do our best today.
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