The ultimate irony
February 14, 2009 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2009 at 1:56 pm by Demonaura.)
Now I don't beleive it for a second but, what would your reaction be to a guy who approached you and started talking about a religion where they had the equivelant of heaven and hell as placed of reward and punishment but, where you went was 100% based on how good you were as a person. None of your beleifs mattered at all, only how good a person you were (good as defined as what we feel to be the right thing to do, thus people who hurt someone but, were trying to help are not punished unless they were shown that they would hurt the person and didn't stop).
Would you treat him any differently if he said there was an overlord (maybe a god, maybe just a higher being) that gave the final judgment?
Would you treat him any differently than a mormon or JW who approached you?
I can probably guess most of your replies but, this is the kind of thought that gets stuck in my head at 10AM when I did not sleep the previous night. Feel free to mention any and all complications or interesting changes to the proposal, even circimstances like: if he knockced at my door or sat down at my table at a cafe.
(Also, it would be ironic if this were true because all the people threatening us with hell would be there and we'd be in heaven, so long as we were good people overall. to be fair though the vast majority of religious people are good people, just victims of indoctrination so most of them would be in heaven too.)
Would you treat him any differently if he said there was an overlord (maybe a god, maybe just a higher being) that gave the final judgment?
Would you treat him any differently than a mormon or JW who approached you?
I can probably guess most of your replies but, this is the kind of thought that gets stuck in my head at 10AM when I did not sleep the previous night. Feel free to mention any and all complications or interesting changes to the proposal, even circimstances like: if he knockced at my door or sat down at my table at a cafe.
(Also, it would be ironic if this were true because all the people threatening us with hell would be there and we'd be in heaven, so long as we were good people overall. to be fair though the vast majority of religious people are good people, just victims of indoctrination so most of them would be in heaven too.)
