I have a huge moral dilemma about my religion, can you help me figure it out?

Question

I was saved in a religion the other day. However while shopping around other religions to see if I got the best deal, I found another one that had an even better afterlife package. Their heaven is much more fancier and has more benefits. I tried telling my current religion about the new deal but they said that they cannot go any better on my afterlife.

Am I stuck with my current religion's afterlife or can I move to the other religion and be saved in it? I want to be sure because I dont want to build my hopes up in this new religion just find out I have to go to the sucky heaven.

Thank you for your help in advance.

Answer 1

Idea! Someone should set up one of those shopping websites - you know, the ones that aggregate ads from loads of different retailers - only use it to let people choose their favourite religion instead. Just put in your requirements and out comes the best religion for you. Awesome!

Good question BTW...

Answer 2

So it is a flavor-of-the-month thing? You're not shopping for a cell phone plan! I cannot tell if you are a religious person mocking those whose beliefs reflect the current celebrity trend, or an agnostic or otherwise mocking religious institutions. Pretty creative, either way.

Funny question, serious answer: Go with the religion that is the truth. Do some more research.

"How would a thoughtful person go about a religious quest? Why should one investigate Christianity?

1)Christianity is testable. You can investigate evidence for and against it. “If Jesus didn’t rise on the third day, then your faith is useless.”
2)Salvation is FREE (unique among world religions) and egalitarian—everyone has equal access. God comes down, people don’t have to climb a ladder.
3)Christianity paints a picture of the world that fits. Suffering is not an illusion, Christianity recognizes that evil exists and Christians are to bear burdens with people. God allows free will and we choose right and wrong actions.
4)You get to live a non-compartmentalized and holistic life. We can be rational and religious, worshipping with our minds and our hearts.
5)In Christianity, you get Jesus at the center. The universal religious figure that so many claim as a prophet is also Lord and Savior.

Christianity is not about blind faith—it never has been. You can go into it with eyes wide open." -Craig Hazen

“Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time….I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God…”

from “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis

Thank you for your creative, thought-provoking, funny-serious question :)

Answer 3

I think window shopping on a week to week basis may not allow you the time you need to realize the benefits and/or losses of any religion. It would appear that to only be interested in afterlife, leaves you not actively participating in the life/body you are currently living in, try it ...it might fit. Perhaps agnosticism is an avenue you should pursue. I admire you for returning to the best deal of last week and seeing if they could match it! :)

Answer 4

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

I took a while before I answered since I was at work and Wow! So many answers. I know you are trolling. Look at all the people trying to save you! Convert you. It is not logical that this would be a serious question, how can anyone think that?

Answer 5

Ok here are the best packages.
Islam - you won't be able to read the fire escape notice.
Buddhism - your bald head will get burnt on the beach.
Jewish-ism - they don't really know themselves - yet.
R.Catholic - you will have to tip toe around the bear sh!t in the woods.
Christian - the 50/50 chance of the "hot" place is a gamble.
Hindu - can't eat some type of meat, so, dodgy kebabs.
18 to 30 - crap hotel, crap food, but, loose women.
Atheism - no worries, you took out the 1000 year extended warranty.

Answer 6

SAVED?????????? What are you "saved" from??? You were SHOPPING AROUND?? AFTERLIFE PACKAGES????
A FANCIER HEAVEN with MORE BENEFITS????

Check this out people!!!!!!!!!!! There is only ONE, I repeat, ONE, God!! And to tell you the truth, I don't even know about that, none of us do.......you may think you do, but you really don't!

And if there is a God it has to be only one because if you think that heaven is going to have all these different God's fighting over who is gonna be boss you are all whacked!!!!

My suggestion to you is...........believe in God if you choose but believe in YOUR God not the one other people want you to believe in because in the end the ONE AND ONLY God that meets you in heaven is gonna be the one YOU choose.

Answer 7

They won't even offer you a package upgrade for good deeds? I would switch to the one that has a better afterlife. But what if you were to combine the two of them? Of coarse you might be split in two with one half in the great heaven and one half in the sucky heaven.
Good luck and have a great eternity! I mean day.

Answer 8

There's no such thing as being 'saved'. Different religions may have different views, but there's only 1 heaven. Live your life as Christlike as possible and you'll be fine. But don't chose a religion just for their 'afterlife package'. Seems a little too superficial for me.

Answer 9

Sure. Religions are like banks. Whenever I see a "Jesus Saves" bumper sticker, I always mentally add "at First City Bank" .
Shop around to find the one that charges the lowest fee, yields the most interest and gives the best prizes for opening your account.

Answer 10

You need to look at Islam's afterlife (72 virgins) or the mormon's (you become a God yourself.) Personally, I find that mormons get the best deal on an afterlife because if you can become a God then you can conjure up all the virgins you want!