Reply #57: "How do you justify anyone's life is this time on earth is all there is?"

[BurtWorm]

That's a very interesting question. From my perspective, to "justify" this life by appealing to an unseen, unproven supernatural one is denigrating to the only one we know. This mystifies me about Christianity in particular. For all the talk of the glory of God's creation, Christianity seems to be all focused on the unproven promise of life after death. What if there is no life after death (which seems a very likely possibility given the lack of evidence for it)?

Karl Kraus, a Viennese aphorist who lived around the time of Freud said "You don't even live once." That's frighteningly true, I'm afraid.