(May 7, 2012 at 2:27 pm)JesusLover Wrote: He suffered physical pain. And he didn't really return, he went to heaven but I get your point. The thing is we will all go to heaven after we die.
We all go to this 'heaven' after we die? Is that regardless of belief and actions? Or are there some special criteria, some set of rules to follow before entry is allowed?
The reason I ask is that if we all go there regardless, what incentive is there for me to buy into the pomp and ceremony that goes along with it? Intoning 'magic' words every Sunday (or whatever 'special' day you prefer); basing - or purporting to base - one's morality on a specially-selected decalogue of commandments, half of which have nothing to do with morality, all the while pretending the other six hundred commandments in the book don't exist or mean something else; stunting the scientific education of schoolchildren by insisting that they be taught inconsistent imaginings about invisible and unfalsifiable entities wishing the Universe into existence, invented solely to prop up an increasingly outdated mythology... we all go to this heaven anyway, so it's all simply pointless time filler.
Hello, by the way.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
