Do I hope that I am right? About god not existing, you mean?
I don't really give it much thought. But the question sounds to me like just another version of "but what if you're wrong?"
And that question is usually linked to the afterlife, and the threat of hell. I reject the existence of god and hell for many reasons, and I'm too tired right now to list them.
That "but what if you're wrong?" though, has been followed more than once with a "wouldn't you just keep going to church and praying, just in case?"
Just in case?? IF I am wrong, and there is a god who knows my thoughts . . . wow, the very last thing I would do, "just in case" would be to make my life a lie, and be false to my very core, by professing to believe something I do not just to save my bacon from frying in hell. A god who knows all would know I was a fraud, trying to con HIM into thinking I was devout. Yikes.
No Chad, if I am wrong, and there is a god, I'm going to enter eternity and go before god honestly. And if there is a god who is not a psychopath, god will understand the reasons for my lack of belief. That's the risk I'm willing to take.
I don't really give it much thought. But the question sounds to me like just another version of "but what if you're wrong?"
And that question is usually linked to the afterlife, and the threat of hell. I reject the existence of god and hell for many reasons, and I'm too tired right now to list them.
That "but what if you're wrong?" though, has been followed more than once with a "wouldn't you just keep going to church and praying, just in case?"
Just in case?? IF I am wrong, and there is a god who knows my thoughts . . . wow, the very last thing I would do, "just in case" would be to make my life a lie, and be false to my very core, by professing to believe something I do not just to save my bacon from frying in hell. A god who knows all would know I was a fraud, trying to con HIM into thinking I was devout. Yikes.
No Chad, if I am wrong, and there is a god, I'm going to enter eternity and go before god honestly. And if there is a god who is not a psychopath, god will understand the reasons for my lack of belief. That's the risk I'm willing to take.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
