RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 12, 2016 at 10:17 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2016 at 10:18 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 12, 2016 at 9:40 pm)Balaco Wrote: If Catholicism for example turns out to be the "correct" faith (or if it simply has the most accurate teachings out of all religions), meaning that we as humans are supposed to love and worship God, then I would want to make sure I'm fulfilling that. Not only to avoid Hell, but to genuinely love God and genuinely fulfill the lifestyle that we would "have" to live.
So, you could actually love and worship a being that set up a system, knowing ahead of time, that the vast majority of humans will be punished for eternity?
Even if the Christian god did exist, I could not or would not love and worship such a moral monster.
I could not even consider Heaven a place I would want to be, knowing that so many of my fellow humans are being tortured for eternity for finite thought crimes.
The worst possible universe I could imagine, is one where the Christian god actually existed.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
