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The sole and only reason religions were invented was to deny the finality of death. Given that there is no way human beings can accept the reality that every relationship they have, everything they've ever learned, turns to oatmeal 20 minutes after their last breath, the varieties of denial will continue to be with us.

>"Our pre-frontal lobes are too small and our adrenaline glands are too big. We're afraid of the dark and we're afraid to die and we believe in the truth of holy books so stupid and so obviously fabricated that a child can - and all children do - see through them." (Christopher Hitchens)