(January 7, 2013 at 12:34 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(January 7, 2013 at 12:26 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No one here should recommend that. But it does bring up the illogical nature of the need to live for a god. If your objective is to get there, be it through his hand or your own, or the hand of another, why the fear of death?It was not a recommendation... Oh my! I surely hope no theist was harmed with the making of this post!
It makes no sense to me that if "they are up in heaven now" that people cry over the loss of a loved one.
And you then addressed my post properly as the food for thought that it was!
No it isn't that they would harm themselves, it is more like they would say "See how evil they are, they want us to shoot ourselves".
Some nuts who might read this, will take it that way, even if it is just a mental exercise to expose the contradiction they keep. Just sayin.
