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  • Hi I’m also a religious person. Some religions have a big emphasis on what happens when we die, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Judaism basically says, “I dunno, maybe we get reincarnated or resurrected or just go be with God. Anyway, do you want any mustard or mayo on that?”

    God didn’t put us here just as a test to see if we pass or fail. God didn’t put us here to ignore the brokenness in the world either. God put us here to make things better. Our job is to be the light in the darkness and to leave things better than we found them.

    At least that’s what I believe. And I don’t think you have to even believe in God to live that way.

    Science as we know it is not equipped to answer the Hard Problem of Consciousness. There is no explanation or path to an explanation for what we are as self aware beings, how we are conscious, how we came to be so, or why this universe exists in the first place.

    Religion may not be the best answer to these questions either, but it does offer a way to live with purpose.