Suppose God appeared to you, and sayeth---
You will choose between two alternatives:
(1) The world will stay as it is,
or
(2) I will take all the truly religious people in the world, all who truly believe in a supernatural creator, and I will wisk them away to an afterlife compatible with their beliefs: believing Christians will go to Christian heaven, Jihadists will go to Jihadist heaven, Dhoists will go to Dhoist heaven, etc.
The non-believers will stay behind, and just in case you're worried, I will also remove all possibly-existing supernatural beings from the universe, good or evil. The universe will operate on purely naturalistic terms, and when you're dead, you're dead, that's it.
Would you choose the second alternative, and would you stay behind?
I would. That's why the idea of the Rapture is so appealing, an atheist's fondest wish, aside from the nasty bits about the anti-christ that seem to be put in to make sure people are properly scared.
2007-06-07
03:00:59
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Ruel The Midianite
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