Text Post: Why not believe in God anyway, just to be safe? posted by spaceghoti

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I doubt /u/baren was referring to fictional movies. We see news about that sort of thing happening all the time, it's happening within our reality and not within a fictional universe. Sometimes when I watch a good, truly engaging movie that has to do with the topic of heaven/afterlife it's nice to suspend belief for a little while and go along with it (it's probably the closest my mind will get to imagining a universe where I can live-on after my death). But as soon as the movie is over, reality kicks in and that suspended belief becomes nothing but a temporary escape into a fictional universe.

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