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es35

(132 posts) Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:41 AM Jul 2016

The real reason religions ban suicide

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Religions are mostly about control, blame and punishment. They devote most of the time and energy to blaming and punishing in order to maintain their dominant position in society. Suicide gives people a way to choose to avoid their punsihment. Of course the result is no existence at all for the one who suicides, but the people who are watching get the satisfaction of seeing others avoid the wrath of the religions. So in that sense it is liberating and therefore must be banned by the faiths.

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The real reason religions ban suicide (Original Post) es35 Jul 2016 OP

The Protestant religion basically sees the body as the temple of God. Lint Head Jul 2016 #1

If dim don gets elected Motley13 Jul 2016 #2

true... sarae Jul 2016 #3

Might it also have something to do thucythucy Jul 2016 #4

More like we don't decide on things we don't understand. Festivito Jul 2016 #5

"the result is no existence at all" truebluegreen Jul 2016 #6

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

1. The Protestant religion basically sees the body as the temple of God.

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:49 AM

Jul 2016

So doing harm to it is destroying that metaphorical Temple.

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Motley13

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2. If dim don gets elected

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:54 AM

Jul 2016

it will be mass suicide

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sarae

(3,284 posts)

3. true...

Reply to Motley13 (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 12:04 PM

Jul 2016

or mass murder (nuke!)

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thucythucy

(9,153 posts)

4. Might it also have something to do

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 12:19 PM

Jul 2016

with the pain that suicide causes others?

I know two people whose spouses committed suicide, one person whose son killed himself. Decades later, they are still coping with the pain.

I think your analysis is way too simplistic.

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Festivito

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5. More like we don't decide on things we don't understand.

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 12:33 PM

Jul 2016

Those things are left to God, such that it is left to God's action. If that leads to some control, it would seem to be more the nature of the beast -- so to speak.

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truebluegreen

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6. "the result is no existence at all"

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:02 PM

Jul 2016

How does anyone know that?

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