I was on the atheist experience :)

[Nihilist Virus]

I was thinking about what you said, and you're right. If I really believed this life was a temporary test deciding my eternal future, and I decided to take that seriously, then I'd do everything I could to ensure I won. Everything. This life simply wouldn't matter at all, no matter how bad, compared to an eternity of badness.

So at the very least, I'd follow what Jesus said as much as I could, as well as Paul, as well as Yahweh... I'd try and cover all my bases. I'd live like a pauper. I wouldn't bank on "oh Jesus was probably joking/wrong/doesn't apply now/parable".

Yep. And technically speaking, it's actually not difficult to sell all your shit and give the money away. I mean, in one sense it'd be the hardest thing you'd ever done, but if you REALLY believed in Jesus, the only difficulty would be in just camping on your lawn all Saturday selling your stuff in your garage sale. Or you could just go to skidrow and give your stuff away, same difference. Not actually hard.

I can understand Christians not being perfect. What I can't understand is their excuse for not even TRYING. Because if you own a TV while children are starving, and you're a Christian, you're simply not trying. Period.

Any Christian who pulls that shit saying gays this or gays that, I tell ask them if they own a TV, then I ask if they are aware that children are starving to death, and then I tell them that they are living in a deliberate, perpetual state of sin no different from homosexuals.

This makes me think the people who so easily dismiss Jesus' (supposed) exact words aren't taking it very seriously at all. They're doing what they would do anyway, and lining this up with bits of the bible and telling themselves it's enough to get into heaven.

I'm thinking about making two lists, one list being the things that Jesus said which Christians live by, and you can guess the other list. You can also guess which list will be longer.

No one ever thinks they're not doing enough, do they? Except perhaps the people who kill themselves because they think God hates them, and find life unbearable. Yes, this really happens. Or the people who kill themselves to go straight to heaven; yes, this really happens too. Religion is so dangerous.

If a Christian isn't trying his hardest, he simply doesn't give a shit about his bullshit religion.