(June 4, 2015 at 10:19 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: [...]One other point, it is still uncertain whether you will actually die as an atheist even if you are living as one now. An act of contrition said with one's final breath has saved many a soul, I have no doubt.
Oh, right - the famous christian loop-hole, where you can mutter a magic spell, just before you die and you get to meet Hitler, Stalin, John Wayne Gacy, or whoever else had the same idea - in heaven.
Heh - good luck with that. Although I doubt you are stupid enough to actually believe that. Deep down you just enjoy telling tall-tales of redemption to infidels, while envisioning their inevitable eternal punishment. Or do you really expect us to believe, that you're fine with the vision of the afterlife, where you can go to hell, if you die suddenly because of a sin you haven't had time to repent for (let's say - your adulterous lover murders you during the act), while your murderer goes to heaven, if they happened to feel really, really sorry about it later in their long natural life - even just before death? Yeah, right...
You're selling god's forgiveness and mercy, as if they were yours to grant. You should perhaps worry about your own fate and prepare your own sniveling death-bed apology.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw