RE: For non-Christians: What would it take?
June 13, 2013 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2013 at 1:18 pm by Rahul.)
(June 13, 2013 at 12:51 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: True, but what if it were an Abrahamic situation where this deity wanted you to prove your loyalty and love for him by sacrificing your only son (or anyone else)? And just when you're about to go through with it, thinking that like the Abraham story this god will stop you from completing your task, nothing of the sort happens and you bring the knife down.
Well if I was a believer and believed we would all spend an eternity in an afterlife, that really diminishes the importance of this short little existence on good old earth now don't it?
If I was a Christian I would be much less concerned about going to war in Afghanistan and killing Muslims than I do as an atheist.
Us Atheists believe this is all we're going to get. So killing a 40 year old muslim, I just cut out a huge chunk of his entire existence.
As a Christian? Well the Muslims are all going to hell anyway. In the afterlife the first three hundred thousand trillion years is just warming up to live (or in the Muslim's case burn) forever. What does it matter if I send the guy there a couple decades earlier?
