This would essentially be a "drop dead" date for humanity.
There'd be no way science could prevent this, or even allow us to escape our demise. So what would you do? You would have a normal lifespan, and probably your children, but your grandchildren, and their children, would face an abrupt death.
As a theist, would you continue to teach them that god is loving and merciful, and that he just decided it was time to destroy the earth, but he wanted to let everyone watch over a century as doomsday inexorably approached?
2007-09-23 13:57:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nice sidestepping Hestia. Are you really so dumb as to have not gotten the premise of this question? If doomsday is coming, what does this mean for religion?
2007-09-23 14:14:30 · update #1
I think that you fail to see a basic flaw in your question.
ALL religions assume that doomsday (I.E.: judgment day) is coming; they just don't know when. Haven't you heard of the "Left Behind" series of books and movies?
Evangelical Christians would simply become more vocal about Judgment Day, that is all.
2007-09-24 08:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would certainly not change anything I already have taught them. They are intelligent enough, even at their ages, to know science. I would tell them the truth, as soon as they were emotionally mature enough to handle the terrible reality, but the notion of god wouldn't enter into the picture.
My 14 year old has said that he knows how to get into other dimension, I'd tell him to hurry up with his calculations. I bet with this kind of motivation, some smart kid would come up with a way to travel faster than the speed of light, but oh what mayhem would then ensue, with everyone vying to get aboard the next available rocket to save human life!
What a scary premise for a question! I got goosebumps reading it. Damn. They would realize that any kids they would have would see their own kids die. A very scary thought. But I still wouldn't go the god route. Honesty is the only way, I wouldn't bring silly nonsense into it at the end.
Blessings,
Lady Morgana )0(
2007-09-23 14:34:00 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Wiccan, I'd be likely to teach my children (if I had any) that the Gods embody all things -- including creation and destruction. I'd also teach them that death is a natural part of the order of things.
Yes, it sucks that this happened, but it's part of the way the universe works. Human happiness is NOT #1 on the Gods' hit parade, and this time the dice rolled against us. I'd place the emphasis on helping them to come to terms with the information and teaching them how important it is to make the most of the years we have available. If they chose not to have children as a result, I would support them in that; if they chose to have children, I'd support that also.
2007-09-23 14:51:50 · answer #3 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Creationist could say specific, they do supernova, and all of us comprehend this by using fact we've witnessed the outcomes and spot with our own eyes that this is logically seen as a supernova. yet what we've by no skill seen is a celebrity reforming, what we've by no skill seen is a celebrity that has needless to say merely shaped. that they had then propose that when there are such quite a few explosions of stars, and such rare coalescing of recent stars, that we are going to not even definitively say for specific that any of them merely shaped, why is it then with trillions of years passing by using fact the super bang that we nevertheless have such quite a few stars, as though the frequency should not be almost as much as we speculate. you notice "Creationists" because it regards those referred to as Creationists, and not the common theist who additionally believes in creation, have faith in the 6,000 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous earth concept based on the translation of the Bible from Adam to Noah's time, and Noah's time to Abraham's time and Abraham's time to now, or possibly to Moses' time and then Moses' time to now. Ahh, I see what Doug is announcing up there. he's announcing that God set forth the gadget while he created all of it, and now the gadget merely keeps on, and we learn it the greater we learn this technique. this is prevalent of what maximum theists have faith
2016-12-17 08:44:31 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the star just went nova (not supernova) it would not necessarily spell doom for humanity. Even a supernova 100 LY away would not necessarily do so. It would depend on whether it was a HYPERNOVA that was producing a gamma ray burst directed at earth.....
Your premise about the novae is flawed, as many astronomers will tell you.
And not all Theists are MONOtheists, please do not fall victim to that logical fallacy as well....
2007-09-23 14:10:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
well i'm an athiest, but how about this: god really wants the nations to cooperate and build a huge space-based particle shield. works for me.
2007-09-23 14:06:25 · answer #6 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
doomsday is kinda predicted in the bible though .. in my personal understanding of it the US gets wiped out before then ..
2007-09-24 06:24:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he does not exist
2007-09-23 14:05:56 · answer #8 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋