Atheists: If God suddenly made his presence known... would you shit bricks?

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If God revealed Himself, I guess I'd just have to face facts.... wait, I already believe in God.

What if God introduced himself as "Allah" and came along with his primary prophet "Muhammad"? How would you react then?

Ha! Great question Paladin! I guess I'd have to start praying 5 times a day, which I kind of want to do anyway. Really the way the Muslim faith centers itself around practice instead of theory is something Christians can learn from, and the sense of meaning in following the pillars of Islam must be profound. Well "Allah" just means "God" anyway, so not much difference there, but as for Muhammad it would change my viewpoint some, obviously I would have to start reading the Koran as inspired, but I think there is a great deal of overlap there so I would still feel pretty comfortable. Plus, praying 5 times a day on a cool little prayer rug sounds like such a great ritual. OH!, and I would get to go to Mecca, you can only get into the city if you're Muslim. So overall, not too bad getting to know my good friends the Muslims even better, plus, cool little rug. Of course I highly doubt that would happen, but as I've said many times, the truth's the truth.

Recently Muslims, Jews, and Christians are getting along better*, and would be doing even better if America could stop torturing/bombing Muslims for five minutes (we've made huge strides recently, but the rhetoric that extremists are putting out to recruit terrorists is that America is out to destroy Islam. With the pictures from Abu-Ghraib and America waging war against two Islamic countries, they can actually sell it pretty well, which has led to MASSIVE increases in terrorist attacks worldwide since the beginning of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars).

*Check out Just Peacemaking, it's a theory on how to make peace that all three Abrahamic faiths are getting ready to sign off on, which will be a huge step forward in peacemaking efforts in the middle east.