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[Edwardo Piet]

I would not be a Christian even if it had any truth to it, anyhow. I know many other people feel the same way.

For me, I like to think that I wouldn't. But then, I like to think that if I was on a desert island starving to death with another person... we wouldn't try to eat each other eventually if we couldn't find any food.

It would be like that, to me. If God did show up, I still wouldn't want to be Christian because he's a genocidal maniac and the biggest total arsehole of a cunt ever (to put it mildly).... but I may eventually submit just because my survival instinct would kick in, and I wouldn't wanna be torchered in hellfire.

Although I guess there's a sense in which I, as my personality, my conscious self, is not my instincts. We don't really identify with our reptilian brain, our flight or flight system. That's why when it kicks in and we misbehave we tend to say things like "I don't know what came over me." As the biological creature we call a "human" I may eventually submit out of pure fear and survival instinct, but as a person... it wouldn't be really 'me' submitting, in some sense. It would be like someone holding a gun to my head (although personally that wouldn't bother me as much as most people. I'd happily let God pull the trigger on that one. I'm more afraid of extreme suffering or starving to death than I am of death itself or a quick death).