RE: How big a risk are we atheists taking by not capitulating to Christian hegemony?
August 23, 2012 at 8:02 am
I offer this new thread to find out how it is we atheists can live with the risk of not falling to our knees and accepting Jesus into our hearts as lord and savior.
There have been well over 10,000 named gods in the past so far
So - any religious person has rejected LOTS of them themselves -
In fact - christianity is not a single religion or a single faith - there are now over 40,000 different versions of chirstianity accepted for tax purposes in the USA alone. The largest - Catholic church - as well as many others - state emphatically that the ONLY way to be saved is to belong to their religion - so even christians are taking that chance.
I have to believe that living a good moral and honest life is what defines humans as thinking - and the idea that you must believe in any particular fairy tale is meaningless. I will live on after death - in the DNA i passed on to my kids and they to their kids. After all - if you actually go to an Xtian funeral - they say - ETERNAL rest grant unto them - certainly does not sound like life after death to me
There have been well over 10,000 named gods in the past so far
So - any religious person has rejected LOTS of them themselves -
In fact - christianity is not a single religion or a single faith - there are now over 40,000 different versions of chirstianity accepted for tax purposes in the USA alone. The largest - Catholic church - as well as many others - state emphatically that the ONLY way to be saved is to belong to their religion - so even christians are taking that chance.
I have to believe that living a good moral and honest life is what defines humans as thinking - and the idea that you must believe in any particular fairy tale is meaningless. I will live on after death - in the DNA i passed on to my kids and they to their kids. After all - if you actually go to an Xtian funeral - they say - ETERNAL rest grant unto them - certainly does not sound like life after death to me