2007-05-04 18:06:47 · 30 answers · asked by I WALK FUNNY 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why do you refuse to understand that ignorance is a choice?
2007-05-04 18:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by juhsayngul 4 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Why do you refuse to understand (and I do mean 'understand', I'm not just mocking your words) that atheists do not believe that hell exists? Something that does not exist is, in their mind, not a choice in any way, it just does not exist. That is the best straightforward answer that anyone can give you, even if it is not what you want to hear.
Do you not understand that others do not believe the same things that you believe? You assume that hell exists. Others do not. I would seem quite senseless to warn you about the perils that the Koran threatens upon those who do not worship Allah, for it's all meaningless to you. When a Muslim wonders why the "infidel" does not praise Allah, I'm sure that you know very well your own feelings and perhaps you may even chuckle to yourself.
2007-05-04 18:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So your saying that with your religion having no more evidence than any other past or present, and actually less than many because the OT has been riped apart, people who choose another religion are choosing to go to hell?
What about those born in Asia brought up in Hinduism or Buddhism. What about the many tribal religions of Africa and South America, which have even stronger religious family communities.
You really do have a sick mind.
2007-05-04 18:16:27 · answer #3 · answered by Jett 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is only a choice if you believe in the alternative.
To people who think it's a fairy tale, it's not a choice. It is nothing.
When atheists talk about hell, they are not looking for validation or comfort. They are not talking about hell as though it really exists, and that heaven is a place they are being cheated out of. They are simply pointing to the contradiction in the commonly held notion that your god is benevolent, and that he teaches benevolence to his followers.
2007-05-04 18:16:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason that Christians refuse to seek the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow. It, like Hell, doesn't exist. You don't seriously expect OTHER people to be worried about YOUR personal closet monster, do you?
In any case, most atheists would choose to go to Hell rather than spend eternity with the nasty drowning and slaughtering Biblical God. As people with morals, we atheists would NEVER condone or praise the many evil things that he does.
2007-05-04 18:13:01 · answer #5 · answered by gelfling 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Hell is not a place is a state of being. Is where everyone will end up at the end of our lives, according to recent investigations the origins of this word first in Hebrew sheo'l, then in Greek hai'des then in Latin infer-nus all meaning the same; sepulcher. So everyone will end up there...see?
2007-05-04 18:14:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You mean I can choose to go to Hell if I like? No think since I have a choice I think I will skip it.
2007-05-04 18:14:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Let's see. I create you. I create hell. If you don't worship me, you go to hell. Your choice.
Some choice. I sound like a petulant god who does not deserve worship.
2007-05-04 18:42:00 · answer #8 · answered by CC 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, it sort of goes hand-in-hand with not believing in God, or Heaven, or Hell, or any of the rest of it.
(Atheist, upon hearing "The Good News")
"Wow! I better repent so that this God I don't believe in won't send me to that Hell I don't believe in either."
2007-05-04 18:29:00 · answer #9 · answered by TexBW 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why do you refuse to understand that we don't believe in the notion of hell??? we choose to be good not because we fear eternal punishment but as we are generally nice people and when we are bad it's not because its the work of the devil but because we cannot understand its moral complications (and a lot of other physiological reasons)
2007-05-04 18:26:22 · answer #10 · answered by eccie83 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They don't refuse to understand anything. They just don't believe that God exists, nor Hell by that matter.
2007-05-04 18:12:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋