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Yet that same reason would tell him he is living a lie thus not giving him any reason to live. The consequences are metaphysical suicide.


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I see your point, although I think you are underestimating man's ability to convince himself of true belief in something that doesn't exist, if he wants to believe it enough.

For example, the suicide pilots who flew the planes into the Word Trade Center believed that 72 virgins would be awaiting them in paradise after they died. Now, many would probably see this plainly as a man-made fiction. And in fact without this fiction, it might be difficult to recruit suicide bombers. But, whether or not this truly will happen to them after death, it is still believed by the bombers just as strongly as Christians believe they will go to heaven. Neither belief is inherently more logical than the other.

In other words, no one actually believes they are living a lie, although obviously many people are. I credit that to man's ability to deceive himself, more than to evidence for heaven's existence.