Talk of heaven and God-daddies in the sky always has felt like a screwy attempt to deal with human psychological dramas to me. There are terrible things occurring on Earth, so there must be a God waiting to punish us for our misdeeds, and "he" must be separate from us, otherwise "he'd" be tainted.
And frankly, talk of atheism can quickly stray into something screwy as well. Human reason is the highest power. Only that which is scientifically confirmed is real. There is nothing beyond the material...Both ends of that spectrum dull the shit out of me, and are, as far as I'm concerned, completely lifeless - deader than the worn out logs currently floating down the flooded Mississippi.
There's nothing screwy at all about the proposition that that which is observed, measured, quantified, and probed in the meat world we inhabit pretty much stays there. No ill-informed appeals to quantum physics metaphysics are needed.
Likewise, there's nothing really screwy about saying there's "nothing beyond the material," because that's the world we inhabit.
Furthermore, from a viewpoint of non-duality, all three of these positions are not complete.
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We could argue about all this ad nauseum. That was one of my main points, as was what you finish up with - that these narratives are incomplete.
As is mine...
BUT I'd add that when doing science do science and not woo.
And when doing religion, make sure you're not doing pretend science or worse yet, concocting that which is easily falsified.
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