atheists you are in trouble, think of your position what will happen after death if there is god he will going to punish you, now think of believers position if there is god he will going to reward believers and if there is no god believers not going to suffer as there is no one for punishment they are in win win situation but you are in trouble if there is one (universe is very big scientist not seen every spot of universe so there may be god somewhere in universe)
2006-07-08 04:44:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are an absolute moron.
2006-07-08 04:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is called Pascal's Wager and it goes something like this: If there is no God, then you've lost nothing by being a Christian. If there is a God, and you're not a Christian, then you've lost everything. Not the exact words, but similar.
However, this presupposes that it is the CHRISTIAN God that is the real one! What if all you Christians are wrong, and it is Shiva, Zeus, Quetzalcoatl, or some other deity who is the real one?? Then YOU'RE the ones in trouble, because you worshipped the wrong deity all your life and refused to repent of it! You, my flat-headed friends, are the ones who have much to lose if you are worshipping the wrong god--as much as atheists and agnostics because we worship no god at all.
I also wish to address your statement that the universe is big, we haven't seen all of it, therefore there may be a god somewhere out there. You believe so strongly in God that you are willing to base your entire world-view on him, yet you admit that there MAY be a god somewhere? There MAY be, but you don't know for sure? Primitive people used to believe God was up in the sky, above the stars and the clouds. The invention of airplanes and telescopes proved that idea wrong. The Hubble telescope has sent us pictures of the farthest galaxies that we are able to detect, trillions of lightyears away, and we see no God there. So where is he? Playing hide-and-seek so we can never really know where, who, and what he is? I do not understand why you would choose to worship him if he cannot even be bothered to show himself to humanity. And then he condemns to hell those humans who don't believe in him because they cannot see him, when he refuses to let them see him! This is why so many of us do not believe in your God--the very idea of him is illogical.
2006-07-08 04:58:58 · answer #2 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is called "Pascal's Wager," and some of the others are right. The further question raised by this line of thinking is "How do I know I have chosen the right god to follow?" What if a Christian spends his whole life being devout only to die and realize that a certain Aboriginal tribe was correct and now he must suffer for eternity at the bottom of a muddy lake?
It's an interesting line of thinking, but it raises far too many questions to be a valid logical argument.
2006-07-09 07:47:46 · answer #3 · answered by wrathpuppet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What if you've got it backwards? Suppose there is no god (work with me here, willya). If I choose to believe, then my belief has no payoff -- no eternal bliss because there's no god no matter what I believe. But if I choose not to believe, then I've lost nothing -- I lived my life as well as I could, I made some good memories for others and that's what will endure long after I'm gone.
2006-07-09 12:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every belief closes the mind off to infinite possibilities otherwise. Belief is certainty in a universe of uncertainties. If we were meant to know everything, we would be animals acting on instinct rather than humans with complex minds.
2006-07-08 04:52:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole theory of God punishing and rewarding (heaven or 72 virgins) is a non-sense.
any educated person believing in this crap is a mental case...at least in 21st centuries.
Atheists will not be punished because they did not butcher people to increase their numbers...
2006-07-08 04:51:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, less than no circumstances. I see atheism as a philosophical selection on the thanks to view the international, merely as is theism. Neither area is able to teach data to help their position. some on both area seem to bypass too a techniques and to develop into militant or "fundamentalist"; it really is unhappy, and denigrates some thing else. yet truly, the actual undeniable actuality that anybody is atheists in basic terms delivers colour to the spectrum of non secular concept. it really is not troubling in any respect.
2016-11-01 10:52:35 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This isn't even a question. But God prefers those seeking his wonderful glory vastly more than those seeking to avoid suffering. The "I better believe just in case" is still a display evidencing a lack of faith. And it's faith, and faith alone, that determines your salvation.
2006-07-08 04:53:35 · answer #8 · answered by hinkle_b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it so hard for you to understand....Atheists do NOT believe there is a god. We do not fear a make believe place like hell. Telling an Atheist they are going to hell is like telling a christian they are going to the land of OZ. Who cares it's make believe.
2006-07-08 04:50:52 · answer #9 · answered by Lisa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every person is born with free will. I have the right to have my beliefs, and you have a right to have yours. Stop trying to push your religion on me. I've made up my mind what I'm going to believe, and no one is going to change that. Not even you, no matter how hard you try and how hard you preach to me. I don't lecture you about your beliefs, don't lecture me about mine. My beliefs are my business.
2006-07-08 04:51:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if a god punishes you, is he[she]really a god? to punish a person is a really human trait, the creator won't punish and didnt make mistakes........we just dont understand.
2006-07-08 05:03:43 · answer #11 · answered by wally l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋