Atheists: if I'm wrong and you're right, so what?

Question

If you're right,, in the end, nothing matters. The sun will expand and burn the earth to a cinder millions of years from now. The universe will peter out (heat death) or collapse (the Big Crunch) billions of years from now. If you're right, who I am ceases to exist the moment I die. Look at the dinosaurs. What impact did they have? None. The lived for millions of years and then died. The end. That's what will happen to us. So what's the point? What's the purpose of life? If you're right and I'm wrong, then why do my beliefs matter so much to you?

Answer 1

If you're correct and I am wrong then there is no consequence after our physical body dies. We will all go off into nothingness without any accountability for what choices we made while we lived.

If we are right and you are wrong then there are concequences for what choices we made while we lived. We will have to answer for our acceptance or rejection of Jesus the Christ as Savior. We will also have to answer fro our acceptance or rejection of God which will have eternal concequences.

The two outcomes are vastly different from each other. So why would I care what you choose? I do not want to see anyone perish but that all should come to a knowledge of the King.

One ideology offers hope while the other is hopeless. Choose well.

Answer 2

It's not the athiests with the problem; it is the religious creationists. It's not a big deal to an atheist what happened a million years ago or what will happen a million years from now. It is to the theists, however. If things a million years ago were not exactly they way a theists insists, that makes his/her entire belief system crumble and become meaningless and worthless. When the belief system is worthless, he/she is then faced with the fact that he/she has spent X number of years and months wasting his days supporting and becoming emotionally involved over a complete falsehood. What an embarassment!!

Mankind cannot progress with its fullest potential as long as the ruling majority believes in a false reality and creates laws based on fiction. If anything it is quite dangerous for our future generations to exist in a world where those in power may very well go on a killing spree in support of their religious beliefs. Given that, yes we will object and quite boldly.

Answer 3

Are you trying to make it so that your beliefs matter to us?

I won't impress anything on you, but as a Christian that believes in evolution, I believe that God provides a purpose for everything.

We may not even exist billions of years from now. There are a number of extinctions that occurred besides the dinosaurs, and each brought forth a new kind of life. After the dinosaurs, mammals came to be. Plus, dinosaurs didn't really have a mental capacity like ours. Famous Christians like C.S. Lewis believe we came out of intelligent design, a selection of the best as God works with our DNA like tinker toys. Strange analogy, I know...

You probably won't even read this, or treat it like a bunch of s**t. But I must let you know that's how I think about this pessimistic view.

Answer 4

You assume that life requires a purpose. We live to survive and continue the species. The ability for abstract thought, that is the crowning feature of being human, carries that ability to question ones own reason for living. Basically, humans are the only know animal that stops, thinks, and realizes that there is no reason to be alive.

Answer 5

As you can tell from their answers, Atheist are very angry people.

They talk about Christians being hypocrites, but they are no better.

Some Atheists were Christians at one time in their life, so they have heard the Truth, and rejected it.

They are angry because they really are living a life without hope.

Answer 6

Look up Pascal's Wager and you can find more but:

- You have as much chance of being wrong about thousands of other gods- so there isn't much of a change in the odds.
- You spend the only life you do have on a lie if you are wrong

Answer 7

because you try to impose your beliefs on others. if you wanted to be christian and just go and sit in the corner and not try to make society bend to your whims by legislating christianity then fine, there would be no issue.

but christianity makes it an issue- it brings itself into conflict with all other beliefs by trying to force thier way of life on them.

you do realise that there are people who don't believe in christianity and why should they have to abide by your "blue sky laws", or not watch porn because YOU find it offensive.

guess what change the channel.

don't like a chocolate jesus?
1- DON'T LOOK
2- don't make chocolate jesuses that are milk chocolate and sold during easter and christmas (mostly easter).

Don't like rock music? don't listen.

don't like evolution?
teach your kids whatever lies you want at home but don't force feed YOUR untested/unproven beliefs in the classroom.

Answer 8

I'll tell you so what . The answer is survival . The atheist will look for hope in the science of surviving (maybe colonization of other planets) . The religious will take a much more fatalistic view (oh well , I guess it was god's will for us to die) .

Answer 9

Why do you need a "purpose", or some big "plan" for human life? How can you be so arrogant? Just enjoy it while you have it and stop wasting it on silliness like religion...come out of the cave.

Answer 10

I believed this when I was an atheist and still believe it now:

Why do your beliefs matter to me?
THEY DON'T.
However, when you try to make your beliefs the law of the land, or disrupt the teaching of science with them, or otherwise try to affect MY family, then your beliefs matter.
Christians of the fundamentalist stripe have bombed buildings and shot people here in the US...we know what extremist versions of your beliefs lead to.