Dose our life deserve these efforts we pay ?

DaveC426913 · Sep 3, 2006

...would life be truly worth living if that was all you had to deal with and remmember every day, knowing that there is no end or reason to it all and that all you have to, likely, look forward to after it, is simply the eventual death of you and those close to you.

I think you may be watching too much TV - that's not meant to be trite .These people still have lives; it's not all flies and starvation.

scott_alexsk · Sep 4, 2006

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/aids/stories/overview/"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2449527.stm"

I was exaggerating somewhat, but it is still very bad.
-scott

DaveC426913 · Sep 4, 2006

scott_alexsk said:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/aids/stories/overview/"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2449527.stm"

I was exaggerating somewhat, but it is still very bad.
-scott

Yes, but the jist of your post is that it is so bad that, if not for belief in God, they would have no reason to live. That is a statement that can't simply be handwaved.

scott_alexsk · Sep 6, 2006

http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=20928&sec=20&con=58"

Here is an article on Christian expansion in Africa. Look around, Islam is expanding at a similar rate.

I ask you if these people were satisfied with the state of their lives why would they be converting at such huge rates. If their lives are so fine why do they feel the need to probe another religion to see if they can get a better life out of it? They are searching. They are seeking relief in religion. If you take that away from them and tell them it is not going to make a difference and that there is a high likelyhood that things are going to stay the same way they are, how do you think they are going to react? They're not going to simply brush it off like its nothing, you are changing their entire perspective of the world and on the meaning of life. If they did not need religion why would they pursue it?

-scott