How will it hurt?

Question

how will it hurt you to not believe in God? the way I see it is...
1. If hell really is made up hooie wouldnt you rather go to the Barbados?
2. how hard is it to actually want to do right and love with independent thought?
3. your not getting forced..and trust me you get alot more
rewards than anything..now and later (There is a dessert stand at the end)
4. why not let your mind ponder things...it - when educated - can explain much in the real world - even that Satan is not real - meaning he can't make you try to not rationlize things and
come up with answers to believe in God! some things are just so explainable and that's how they are supposed to be. Our minds have more than enough ability to learn things and we dont need religious hooie to prove that!!

This is mocking the previous post with the same question...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq_E5qnxWGer5UFQ.qkne7Lzy6IX?qid=20060712221852AAu18wS

Answer 1

The Defiant One is all wrong.

First, a fair and benevolent God would care more about people's treatment of others in life than he would about whether or not they worshipped him. Therefore, disbelief in God would not automatically condemn anyone to hell. By the same token, if God would condemn people to hell simply because they don't believe in him, then it proves that God is evil and should be ignored.

Second, people are NOT restrained from committing crimes by belief in a higher power. Crimes happen all the time. The thing that is restrained by belief in a higher power is the pursuit of justice on Earth. Too many people believe that evil will be punished in the afterlife and therefore fail to do anything to stop it now. That is completely immoral. If all crimes were punished in life, crime would decrease dramatically.

Third, the numbers he provided clearly demonstrate that he doesn't understand math. What he seems to have intended to say is either that more than 99.9999999999% of the universe is unexplored or that less than 0.0000000001% of the universe has been explored. Either of these statements would be true, but they don't prove God exists. By the same logic, it is quite possible that fairies, elves, dragons, dwarves, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny all exist somewhere. That's great company for your almighty God. If you must believe in God, please base it on a more rational arguement.

Also, the claim that societies who believe in God are the source of the "vast majority of the greatest scientific achievements of man during the past 2000 years" is incorrect. Many great achievements came from China and India where belief in the one God was not present. The natives of the Americas also made significant scientific progress during the same time without any knowledge whatsoever of the one God. Unfortunately, most of the science of the Americas was lost to the plagues from Europe and the religiously fueled destruction of the Spaniards and is only now being rediscovered. Religion is the motive for destruction at least as often as it is for discovery.

Lastly, many people probably believe that I am an atheist for making these statements. That isn't true. I am a nontheist. There is a difference. I don't believe that God doesn't exist. I believe that his existence is absolutely irrelevant and changes nothing about the way people should live. It is better to treat others well because you honestly care about their welfare than it is to treat them well because you expect to be rewarded for it by God.

Answer 2

How will it hurt to not believe in God?

Firstly and most importantly, if He exists, and you ignore his warnings, you will parish. Do you want to perish? Ignorance is the fastest way to destruction. The Bible states: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Secondly, even if there were no God, if everyone felt as you do, then we would live in a world where no one is restrained by accountability to a higher power, no one is restrained by the consequences in the afterlife of evil deeds. My wife knows about my past training and experience, and has seen what I am capable of, and she has commented many times that it's a good thing I'm a Christian or there would be many people today who would not be alive otherwise.

Well, if you wish to ponder things, ponder this: Less than 99.9999999999 percent of the universe has been explored, and your mind (or any person's mind, for that matter) contains far less than 1 percent of all universal knowledge. In the face of such ignorance, how can an atheist state that there is no God? Could God not easily exist in the unexplored universe, or in the 99 plus percent of universal knowledge that we humans lack.

Atheists have no evidence to state that there is no God, so what they have is a belief, a faith, based on ignorance.

I admit that my faith in God is also a belief, so I am intellectually honest. I have no proof that you will accept, but the evidence I have studied is overwhelmingly in favor of the God of the Bible, and so I choose to believe in God.

I suggest you ponder why the vast majority of the greatest scientific achievements of man during the past 2000 years were accomplished by people who strongly believed in God, and those societies that did not believe in God had the least amount of advancement.

SUCCESS!

Answer 3

If God's real, and a hypocritical, egotistical ******, you'll go to hell.

Answer 4

Oh. I see now. Praise be.

Answer 5

put you thoughts in order...then try again