Nilatai wrote:
No causation besides being comfortable in the knowledge that if you fuck up this life, it doesn't matter?
You shouldn't be living your life for the sole purpose of an afterlife. If that were the case, you should commit suicide. The point is to live a good life NOW, the afterlife is just a bonus. So, I fail to see how that's "comfortable"? You lived an effed up life. "Well at least I wont have an effed up afterlife"? I mean, even if religions were all fake, wouldn't you want to have at least one good lifetime?
Nilatai wrote:
Besides, whatever your crimes, you get forgiven right? Must be awesome.
Forgiving someone does not mean forgetting the action made. You're just grasping at straws because you're anti religion. Just because you are forgiven, doesn't excuse or pardon you from punishment. People make mistakes, some more grave than others, but most people would want a "second" chance to redeem themselves. Likewise, most people are willing to give people second opportunities after being punished, apologized to, etc.
Nilatai wrote:
The point of this option...is to get more Christians? I don't know. Shockingly, going to Church isn't the only way people learn socially acceptable morals. So that avenue is kind of moot.
Then take the jail option if you don't like it. If you're so anti-church that you, as a criminal, can't fathom the idea of going to church as a way to benefit you even if you aren't religious, then you should simply take the jail option.
It's not moot at all. Yes, there's plenty of ways to learn socially acceptable morals and you, as a criminal, chose neither of them or at least to act upon them. So, why should you now have freedom and options for corrections? The point isn't to get more Christians, as I bet there are other religious options available. The point is for corrective learning. If going to church offends you that much, then go to jail.