RE: Why god is not real in my opinon
July 4, 2013 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2013 at 12:48 am by Rahul.)
(July 3, 2013 at 11:03 pm)Godschild Wrote: I did not threaten anything or anyone, nor does God, it is a reality of life after death. If I were to make a threat it would be from me to whom ever, besides what good does a threat do, I've had several come my way on this forum and I have always wondered how they could be carried out.
All I was doing in this case was let someone know there are.... never mind no one cares anyway.
Atheist threat to a theist: "When you die nothing happens, you just cease to exist!"
Theist threat to an atheist: "When you die you will be cast in an eternal fire for an eternity, to scream yourself hoarse in torment until the end of time (which, by the way, will never come)."
We (atheists) are saying, "Whether you are a great person, or a horrible person, once you are dead, you're just gone. It doesn't matter to YOU (that's a very important detail, to "YOU") whether you were the most horrible human that ever lived or the most amazing person that ever lived. You're just gone. How you treated others that's all that really matters. Bring good to your life with others when you arrive. Leave good behind you in life when you're gone. Make things better. That's your legacy. Even if your legacy is just bequeathed to one lonely soul that the rest of humanity will never know about."
Theists imply or outright state the threat, "I like you, I think you are a good person, but you're going to burn in eternal hellfire because you don't agree with me."
I disagree with this mindset. Not just the philosophy behind it. I'm convinced it's utterly untrue and has no basis in reality. And I'm tired of theists coming with that mindset that if they believe in an absurd idea of a god that it absolves them of being a genuinely nice person. That it somehow puts them ahead of the line for what a good person is simply for believing in those absurd concepts.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.