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Yes, because human history has been genteel up until this point. We'll just ignore the Dark Ages, the Holocaust, Pol Pot, Alexander the Great, the French Revolution, the Vikings, the various genocides committed by the Jews (if you buy into the Old Testament as history)...
Life is rough, no one gets out alive. Sure, it'd be nice if everything worked out after we died, but it's got as much truth behind it as any other sort of fiction we've created. We might as well say that the events of The Matrix have already happened.
It's hard to come to this realization, I admit. As someone with a background in religious instruction, I did tend to want to cling on to the old comforts. It's like a security blanket. It's comforting. But comfort doesn't equal the truth.
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