My ears have been raped the past 3 weeks with preachers saying that if i don't accept god I will go to hell, or the only way to get to heaven was to accept god as my savior. and the moment i say i don't belive in your imaginary friend or the book you seem to cling to they proceed to further and even forcefully (not physical) but right up in your face and in front of everyone say "this man is going to hell because he does not believe." Then I reply why should I fear someone that has never shown one shred of evidence that he ever existed other than that what some really bad storytellers in which none of their stories even make sense, nevertheless agree on anything. Why should I worship your god, if there are so many different religions, even in your own faith, that dissagree on the contex of the bible. Why should i believe? They would answer that I have to believe and god will show me the way. I have to have faith. Then i respond Why do you have to try to scare everyone into beleiving in your god? and he said that it the world out there that's scary and hell is scary place. why would you want to risk your eternal salvation. and deny it. i replied that I am not afraid of hell, and heaven wouldn't be a place i would want to dwell anyhow for eternity. Kissing some guy's ass is not what i call fun. secondly there is no evidence of heaven or hell so if there is a god, he set us up to fail. so i would have lost all respect for him. and finally i said you have your faith so hard in this idea, what if your religion is the wrong religion and mormonism is true, or muslim or what if they are all screwed and zeus was the real god and everyone has dismissed him. I finally ended with if you put blind faith into fear and god it can cause intolerance and even uneeded wars. He looked at me pale as can be and goes "Fuck"
Bill Maher: If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?
