@Oten original post:

Great suggestions here if you have not already seen them.

I will add another albeit slightly different suggestion:

-Operate from: god is a made up fairy tale made by humans, (enormous amounts of evidence for this if you do not want to take my word for it.) Once you always assume and operate anything religious is a lie it is fairly easy to work backwards from their to explain anything religion oriented.

Is there an afterlife? -- well the idea sprung from religion/god, there is no god so we can safely dismiss any claims for an afterlife.
Is there a purpose to life? -- well the purpose to life given in religion, well there is no god, so purposes explained there has no real basis, so we can dismiss them unless new evidence from something not god oriented shows a purpose to life.

Know that organized religion that accepts any money, enriches or empowers itself in any way is a CON, probably the oldest and most refined con there is. It is a particularly effective con because so many people believe in it and all the believers teach other believers, I would say even most of the religious leaders also believe the con, as the con preceded them, sometimes by 1000 years, and the con learned to protect it self with 1000's of years of practice.

People do not want to admit they have been conned by their closest and most trusted family members, friends and respected peers, so they will rationalize tremendously to extreme lengths to protect their "conned into at a young age" belief system. Almost no matter how ridiculous the religious claims get. (And realize they do get R I D I C U L O U S!) Many today may laugh and be entertained by religions of past that are out of favor now, but realize the current widely held religious systems are just the same, (if perhaps a bit more refined by the times and edited to try and keep up.)

Happily with the internet and continuing spread of knowledge, the religious lie con is rapidly meeting its end. The lies and deceit increasingly no longer work in the face of real knowledge. While some people may hold ever tighter to their beliefs, the presence of the internet, the spread of highly accessible knowledge based on fact is shining light banishing shadows and deceit like religion ever so slowly. The latest generation of people born after the turn of the millenium have never been more secular, and this even accounts for some of the religions that are expanding today, (like Islam.) I do not expect old people to very often turn their backs on religion they have practiced all their lives, but the younger generation that can google "is there a god" at any time of the day and get answers immediately are seeing the lies in a much more accessible way then ever before.
 
 

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