The Atheist - Agnostic - Non religious thread

Current scientific knowledge suggests that time and space (at least time and space in our universe) are not infinite, in the sense that 'they are not infinite in our now'. They were smaller in the past and they have been expanding so they are not infinite, but they may well continue expanding infinitely in the future ('infinitely' meaning until the universe will reach thermodynamic equilibrium, then the concept of time will be meaningless since there will not be any potential for any further change).

If faith strengthens the believers, then faith in a god can be called useful. 

Collective imagination can surge powerful energies. 

If you're a crowd addict,  the more you trust that the winner of the competition / the exceptional artist have the keys of a kind of supernatural condition – so that your imagination loses itself into an infinite number of guessings about how super-people might achieve what there're doing – the more you may enjoy massive emotional transports .

A god can also originate from the fatherlike inner voice like the one climber Joe Simpson, a non believer, did "obey" to a in order to manage his crawling back from the glacier he'd been trapped into.

As faith, and placebos, can work like a kind of  steroid, they definitely affect our everyday lives one way or another.

This the current most resounding act of faith indeed !

Yet I'm wondering which percentage of what motivates self killing is actual religious faith. If I were desperate about the World + my future, thinking about death, I'd find extremism a very honourable way for the ultimate act. But wouldn't I kill myself even if no extremists were offering me that exciting killing program ?

But this is not how it works. People becoming suicide bombers are often not so desperate, they do it purely on religious faith basis.

There are many people much more desperate who just stick to living, which is also a surprise to me, I often feel that if I was so desperate as some people are I would probably kill myself, but not harming anybody else, and having nothing to do with religious faith.

A primitive animal I would guess? I don't even get the 'fun' in hunting animals, so let alone in killing humans. I more or less understand (though not approve) that for some people money can be a very powerful driving force, but those who enjoy fighting or killing even without any financial benefits are purely primitive beings. Hey, even Cesar Millan shows us that even 'predator' animals such as dogs are not aggressive by nature, if they feel balanced and get food they are peaceful as doves!

 

Maybe this will help: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/insight-therapy/201009/understanding-the-suicide-bomber

But we're in a grotto in the jungle, so what looks like something often turns to be something else.