I just wanted to think with you ... that if i am a smart guy and have some kind of brain ... which is better ? to be an Athiest and get my surprise at the end? or to believe in God ... and go to heaven
assuming that i believe that there might not be anything after death... if so ... which is better?
2007-11-07 18:06:31 · 39 answers · asked by A Friend 4ever 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Guys don't get me wrong .. i am not playing smart ...and i am not making fun of anyone ....
i just want atheists to read others answers... maybe just maybe you'd hear someone elses opinion or just think of it as knowing others opinion ... isn't thhis what Yahoo!answers all about?
just listen ...
atheists please don't answer :)
2007-11-07 18:21:57 · update #1
I think most atheists believe that there is a supreme being. They just choose to ignore Him. There won't be any surprise on Judgment Day. The only thing that will change is that they won't be able to ignore Him anymore.
2007-11-07 18:12:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 16⤋
I think, as I always have done and always will do, that the charismatic, evangelical Christian way of doing and looking at things smacks of the most supreme arrogance. Somehow they are "the chosen ones" and condemn millions if not billions of people to death and oblivion when this supposed "day of judgement" comes as they all rise to heaven and everyone else gets left behind.
It's highly debatable if such a thing will ever happen anyway but as matter of principle I want no part in such a movement and somehow I don't think I'd be the only one to say that.
2007-11-07 18:38:53 · answer #2 · answered by PRH1 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, acoording to scriptural prophecy, you know like the Bible, judgment day has already come and gone. Since the Age of Aquarius is upon us and the Age of Pisces is over, Christian dominance in the world is coming to an end and there will be a new harmony between science and spirituality. Basically, everyone will be better off when everyone realizes that the Church is irrelevant and it collapses on itself. Bring in the New Age!
2007-11-07 18:15:08 · answer #3 · answered by ybennoach 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
How... boring. Another presentation of Pascal's Wager.
The short answer is: it is not better to spend your brief life in expectation of imaginary outcomes! Pascal was dead wrong, and I suspect even he knew it.
I prefer to be an atheist, EVEN if there is a god (which there isn't, but just for the sake of argument). Why? Because a god that demands particular worship and rewards particular behavior (but at the same time creates contradictory, confusing, and even false messages) is no god who's company I want to "enjoy."
I'm staying with atheism, and I've been born once, and that was quite sufficient, thank you.
2007-11-07 18:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by kwxilvr 4 · 9⤊ 1⤋
there's always contentment & pleasure in knowing that you did the right thing.
why must you wait to get a surprise at the end by being an athiest when you you know within you that believing in God and going to heaven is what your heart desires.
2007-11-07 18:15:09 · answer #5 · answered by vibe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why stop at just Atheists? What about Nihilists, Taoists, Satanists, Agnostics, Gnostics, Buddhists, Greco-Roman Pantheists, Norse Mythists, Druids, Wiccans, etc?
Who's to say what's right and wrong? Imagine the look on the faces of the Christians if they see the Elysian Fields, Summerland, attain Nirvana, or get Reincarnated? Or better yet...nothing happens.
Even better still, who's to say that we're not ALL right, and we all go to our own callings?
2007-11-07 18:17:12 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix_Slasher 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Well, dedicating one's life to somthing that has a very very little chance of being true seems like a Vegas sucker bet to me.
Being an athiest drives me to get the most out of the life i know i have. knowing i cant just be passive and expect god to do it for me or be passive because im going to heaven or be passive because i can pray. I have to live life to the fullest ("suck the marrow out of life"-Emerson) because this is all I have.
This is the debate between hope and facts. I belive that Katrina victims dont need U2 to go and play for them and give them hope, they need the fact that people and the government will help them. I dont need the hope of there being a god, let alone one who will let me into his paridise, i need to live under the assumption there is no god
2007-11-07 18:13:09 · answer #7 · answered by Mike 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It is going to be the same look that a lot of christians will have on their faces, too.
I would rather a person be an atheist and live a christlike life then be a christian and just pay lipservice to their beliefs. Claiming you believe in God just doesnt cut it. There will be plenty of shocked christians.
2007-11-07 18:10:33 · answer #8 · answered by cadisneygirl 7 · 11⤊ 2⤋
Are you sure you are a smart guy and have some kind of brain? I think you should work on that.
2007-11-07 18:12:34 · answer #9 · answered by didderjiddit 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Can anyone imagine the faces of the Christians alongside the atheists when they find out they too were dead wrong?
You better start being of all religions, huh?
2007-11-07 18:11:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 2⤋
And what of non-Christian theists. Are you so prejudice against people that don't believe in any gods that you ignore the people who believe in _other_ gods?
2007-11-07 20:41:54 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋