Good Person Vs Bad Person
I was recently watching a movie called Taken starring Liam Neeson in which his daughter gets kidnapped by some sex traffickers and that movie got me thinking about a simple argument to put forward to Atheists.
There are two people. The first is a righteous one who does good things throughout his life; like for example, gives money to charity, looks after his kids, takes care of his parents when they get old, does not steal, nor robs, he his good to his neighbours and plays a positive contribution to the society. One the other hand, the other guy is the opposite. He does all the bad things in the society; like for example, he may commit murder, rape, he doesn’t look after his family; he steals (like our bankers these days, lol) and so on. After certain amount of time, they both just die, say from natural death. Is that it? Now surely the good guy deserves some sort of reward for all his goods deeds while the bad guy deserves to get punished for it. I mean if there was no God, then good guy with his entire good act gets no reward and the bad guy with all his bad actions gets away with it? Surely that can’t be right? In Islam, one of the attributes of God is the ‘The Judge’ in which he judges people and rewards people for their good actions and punishes them for their bad actions.
Some people may argue that it’s the responsible of the law system in each country or the society it self to either reward people for good actions or punish the wrong doers. But, there are many good people who don’t get recognised for their good actions, but more important, there are many people in this world who get away with bad things like the sex traffickers in the movie Taken. Also, as we know, many times, criminals for example, who are brought to court, beat the system and get away it. If they get away with in this life, then surely not on Judgement Day by God.
Just wanted to know the response of some Atheists. Now I don’t want responses regarding what are good and bad, for example, some good actions in one country may be seen as bad in another country. Just on the common aspects of good and bad.
I was recently watching a movie called Taken starring Liam Neeson in which his daughter gets kidnapped by some sex traffickers and that movie got me thinking about a simple argument to put forward to Atheists.
There are two people. The first is a righteous one who does good things throughout his life; like for example, gives money to charity, looks after his kids, takes care of his parents when they get old, does not steal, nor robs, he his good to his neighbours and plays a positive contribution to the society. One the other hand, the other guy is the opposite. He does all the bad things in the society; like for example, he may commit murder, rape, he doesn’t look after his family; he steals (like our bankers these days, lol) and so on. After certain amount of time, they both just die, say from natural death. Is that it? Now surely the good guy deserves some sort of reward for all his goods deeds while the bad guy deserves to get punished for it. I mean if there was no God, then good guy with his entire good act gets no reward and the bad guy with all his bad actions gets away with it? Surely that can’t be right? In Islam, one of the attributes of God is the ‘The Judge’ in which he judges people and rewards people for their good actions and punishes them for their bad actions.
Some people may argue that it’s the responsible of the law system in each country or the society it self to either reward people for good actions or punish the wrong doers. But, there are many good people who don’t get recognised for their good actions, but more important, there are many people in this world who get away with bad things like the sex traffickers in the movie Taken. Also, as we know, many times, criminals for example, who are brought to court, beat the system and get away it. If they get away with in this life, then surely not on Judgement Day by God.
Just wanted to know the response of some Atheists. Now I don’t want responses regarding what are good and bad, for example, some good actions in one country may be seen as bad in another country. Just on the common aspects of good and bad.
peace2u
