Would you still.....?

[Ace Otana]

I has a question for our theist friends. I'm only interested in your thoughts. I've been meaning to ask the question so here goes.

If god did not promis an afterlife, if there was no afterlife no matter how good or bad you've been, would you still follow a religion? Would you still go to church? Would you still worship? If there was no heaven or hell but there was a god, would you still believe, worship and such like normal? if you went straight into oblivion right after death, would you still believe and worship? Even though there is no reward like heaven or punishment like hell?

Just interested in your responce.
It's a question I have been meaning to ask for a while. Now seems like a good time to ask it.

Ace

[littlegrimlin1]

I am not your theist friend, but atheist friend haha.

If I was a theist, and my god did not give an afterlife to me, I would not see any reason to worship him. This is only if "afterlife" refers to heaven as well as hell.

Thinking of it this way makes it seem like they are all so greedy for an afterlife, which their god would know they are just trying to get a free ticket into heaven, which is why atheists have problems with pascals wager. Or maybe they just genuinely want to please their god, for the sake of "blessings" while they have thier only time on this earth. This could include wanting their future generations to have blessings as well.

I'm not sure of which one it is for my family members.

Hopefully I have helped, from an atheistic POV.

[fr0d0]

I'm only just coming to grasp the basics of the 'afterlife' thing and I still don't really see the relevance. I've been a Christian for about 20 years on and off so I guess the answer is: yep I would/ do.