Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.