What would you do if you died today, meet with God in Heaven and he says "Depart from me, your soul belongs with the dark angel in the lake of fire" Would you be freaking out? Would you believe then?
2007-07-04 06:07:42 · 21 answers · asked by Kuervo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is a serious question, come on.
2007-07-04 06:13:24 · update #1
Can you guys just answer the question or not?
2007-07-04 06:14:45 · update #2
don't change the subject, just answer my question.
2007-07-04 06:18:50 · update #3
This is the typical type of questions pastors love as well.I went for this bloody church meeting once,quite long ago when i was not strong enough to say no to my silly christian friend,and the sermon was about afterlife.This pastor was talking abt Audrey Hepburn,who is an aethist and who died around that time,and he said: "'well,she must care about God now." I felt so sick...i mean u believe in all that heaven crap(Good for YOU),you dont need to speculate about other people's lives and their so-called fates.
And no i wont be freakiing out because i dont believe in an afterlife,and frankly its none of your buisness.
2007-07-04 06:23:53 · answer #1 · answered by chryshal 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What would you do if you died today, meet with the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Heaven and he says "Depart from me, your soul belongs with the dark angel in the eternally simmering pot of Alfredo Sauce" Would you be freaking out? Would you believe then?
Edit: OK I'll answer your question. IF this were to happen, I'd go "crap, that BS was true after all" and take my punishment, which would still be the morally superior choice. The alternative is to worship Hitler while he fries your friends in the concentration camps.
2007-07-04 06:16:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What would you do if you met the god I believe in, who lets anybody into heaven, as long as they never claimed to know for a fact another god existed?
Pascal's wager:
"If god exists, it's infinitely better to believe, since you get heaven instead of hell for eternity. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter since you're dead anyway. So overall it's better to believe"
This is, of course, false.
Some of the problems with the argument:
* The implied assumption that god may exist (with a 50% probability, no less!)
* The assumption that there is an afterlife with a heaven and hell
* The assumption that the god cares about belief in him/her above all else
* The assumption that if you believe in a god, it will definitely be the same god that actually exists.
* The assumption that you lose nothing if it's false. You have lost a great deal, from time praying to a nonexistent entity (some people pray several hours a day!!!) to morality (your god may ask you to hurt other people) and much more besides.
* The assumption that people can believe in something simply because it benefits them. Would you believe goblins exist for twenty bucks? Why not?
* The assumption that any god won't see through the "believing just to get into heaven" ploy.
For more:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/wager.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html
2007-07-04 06:12:10 · answer #3 · answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would not be freaking out.
I would point out that I made use of the brain that I was born with. I would question why such a god would need belief from me without providing me sufficient evidence. I would question why such a god would punish rational people like me to a lake of fire for not believing in something without evidence.
2007-07-04 06:14:38 · answer #4 · answered by CC 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
you have a couple of legit answers there, but i'll give mine too, but first i'll have a beer cause this is pascals wager and a drinking question.
ok now i'll answer. i would certainly believe then. that would be proof. god would never send me to hell because he knows my heart and knows i'm a good person. he created me with a brain that was logical and gave me free will to use it, and that same brain would not allow me to believe in him, he understands that. so no, i wouldn't be freaking out. although i would be upset that i could never eat bbq steak or have sex again (because christians have told me that these things don't exist in heaven because they don't need to exist)
2007-07-04 06:19:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If that happened. I wouldn't "Freak Out", because that would be entirely pointless. If I then found myself in hell, I would accept the fact that my surroundings had changed. I would still question the reality of the situation. After all, eternal pain would get very boring after a while...
2007-07-04 06:16:24 · answer #6 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why do you guys keep asking this question? You do realize that we don't deny things that are supported by evidence, right? And you do realize how psychotic this makes you sound, right? Like you're looking forward to the possibility that we'll be tor tortured. Really, it just makes you sound like a psychopath. Nice god you got there.
2007-07-04 06:12:44 · answer #7 · answered by eri 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I'd believe then, just like I'd believe now if he appeared before me. I asked a Christian in here this morning to pray for God to appear before me, and he never did. Can you do any better?
I'm waiting. I answered your question. Now, answer mine.
2007-07-04 06:19:51 · answer #8 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me get this immediately,you are asking questions of atheists and complaining once we reply? Would it slow no longer be bigger spent complaining approximately the devout no longer answering while you ask questions of them? Religion is backwards. I believe eighteen is your lot roughly
2016-09-05 14:38:48 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not again.
Look... in the extremely minute chance that that actually happened, if your god is the loving god you Christians love to claim he is then he'd accept a sincere heartfelt apology. If he throws me into hell anyway, then I'd be glad I didn't waste my life worshipping such an angry hateful god.
2007-07-04 06:12:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋