RE: Question to Christians
May 31, 2016 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2016 at 2:46 pm by SilverFrog.)
(May 28, 2016 at 2:17 pm)Drich Wrote:(May 28, 2016 at 12:04 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: So, atheists get what they wished for? Independence and pride in death(non existence)?
No wonder religion is formal(not serious) world wide, as people don't wish to turn their life in to "little purgatory" for heavenly afterlife.
a little presumptuous don't you think? In that you think you know what the second death is? Death here in this life is the ceasing of cognitive thought and the termination of biological life. But the question should be, is this what the second death is or is limited to? Scripture describes something else. There is a reason why many believe Hell is eternal torment, because in part that is what the bible describes Hell to be, (for satan and his angels) but at the same time Jesus Himself says it is where the soul is destroyed.
Now what Jesus said, did not include a time limit on how long this destruction/death would take. Think RotJ and the Great Pit of Carkoon (where the sarlacc digests his victims over thousands of years.) Death is most likely not immediate. I have it on pretty good authority/It is my thought that you will 'simmer' in Hell based on how you lived your life. And once the evil is burned away then what's left is also consumed by hell fire. Meaning your sanity is finally consumed, and either what's left is burned up or is further burned won't really matter much any more.
So you have it on pretty good authority? Wow, you must be really important. You seem to relish in describing the pain of hell.
You are one sick puppy there Drich.
(May 30, 2016 at 3:20 pm)Lek Wrote:(May 28, 2016 at 12:04 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: So, atheists get what they wished for? Independence and pride in death(non existence)?
No wonder religion is formal(not serious) world wide, as people don't wish to turn their life in to "little purgatory" for heavenly afterlife.
Why do you think that the christian life is a purgatory? Do you think that atheists enjoy their lives more than christians?
Well Lek, let me put it this way.
I now enjoy life much more than when I was a christian.
And you can take that to the bank.
(May 31, 2016 at 10:56 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 31, 2016 at 10:33 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: They may have been Christians because back then it was a crime not to be, but the discoveries were despite of religion not because of it. When people believed in the bible as you do there was a period of long stagnation, it was only when the bible was set aside that progress was made.Yet the Christian foundations of an intelligible order and the efficacy of reason remain the unacknowledged and necessary basis on which the intellectual tools of that progress depends. They were absent outside the West and that is also why liberal democracy developed in the West. Natural law, human dignity, and inalienable rights are all contingent on the existence of God. To deny the existence of God is to undermine the foundations of natural science and liberal democracy.
What a lot of hogwash. Repeating platitudes doesn't make it true.
"Natural law, human dignity and inalienable rights". You have to be kidding, right?
Have you read your bible?
Well conducted introspection dispels the dreams and delirium on wich gods feed.
Atheism is not therapy but restored mental health.
-Michel Onfray-
Atheism is not therapy but restored mental health.
-Michel Onfray-