RE: How to convert Christians to atheists in 30 seconds (ironically, using bible)
December 6, 2016 at 10:02 am
(December 6, 2016 at 8:03 am)Ignorant Wrote: 2) His resurrection is meant for every person. If he rose from the dead, then everyone (atheist, theist, Jew, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian, etc.) will also rise from the dead. Death is not, therefore, the end. All things will be restored to an existence without corruption and death (i.e. eternal existence).
3) Our actions in this life determine our manner of eternal existence in the resurrected life. You will live in eternal reality inherent in your temporal actions. If you live in eternal life at the resurrection, you are living the eternal life which you created through your merciful actions in this temporal life. If you are living an eternal torment at the resurrection, you are living the eternal torment which you created through your shitty actions in this temporal life. Your temporal life is the summation of your freedom. Did you choose love, justice and mercy? Or did you choose fear, self-seeking, and power? The resurrection will reveal to everyone what you've chosen through your life's actions.
This implies that god will resurrect some people for the specific purpose of causing them unending torment. That will seem like a just punishment for some people, but how many rebellious teens who committed suicide will be writhing in agony for all of eternity next to Adolf Hitler? And does it really ease the conscience to say that they created this punishment through their shitty actions in this temporal life? Will god hear those cries and do nothing for the billions of people writing in torment forever and ever because they were poor citizens for a portion of the infinitesimally small slice of time that they existed? For every child-abuser, how many drug addicts will be writhing in torment for the rest of time? For every mafia hit-man, how many gays? For every wife beater, how many atheists?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould