RE: A friendly Christian sent me a message
March 1, 2014 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2014 at 10:47 am by Simon Moon.)
(March 1, 2014 at 10:29 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: My whole worry is that I'll pick the wrong thing. What if I'm an atheist/agnostic and Christianity's right? I'll go to hell! What if I'm a Christian and something like Islam's right? I'll go to hell! The fear of hell is what keeps religion relevant to me.
I got the solution for you.
Rotate weeks for every theistic belief. Start with Hinduism (since it it the oldest religion), the next week move to Zoroastrianism, then Judaism, then Christianity, then Islam, then Mormonism. Don't forget Sikhism, Taoism, Scientology, etc.
This way, you give yourself a fighting chance of dying while believing in the correct god.
Or...
You could have a bit of intellectual integrity, and withhold belief in ANY of them until they are able to produce demonstrable evidence and reasoned argument to support their extraordinary claims.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
