(November 19, 2014 at 9:09 am)Riketto Wrote: Ok. this is just an hypothetical question so keep cool and calm.
No need to get excited.
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OR SAY IF YOU DIE AND FIND OUT THAT YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL AND GOD IS THERE?
Your body is left behind to rot but your body is not you anymore.
You are there facing God.
1) Would you say.........oh, well there was no evidence that you existed that is why i never believe that you exist.
2) I was wrong in not looking at all options.
3) I never thought that by refusing to consider that you exist i could not expect that you manifest in my consciousness.
If none of these options come closer to your thinking then please express your thought.
I am curious to know what you would say to this HYPOTHETICAL God in this HYPOTHETICAL case.
Thanks.
I'd say 1) out of any of the three you offered.
Option 2) presumes that the reason one doesn't believe in a god is because they were too lazy to look into it at all, when it's quite the opposite in most cases. Typically, it's the ongoing search for answers based in reality that causes one to conclude the Judeo-christian (and other deities) god just simply isn't there. Many atheists, such as myself, were very diligent Christians. Somewhere along the way, we began to ask questions to quell an uneasiness in our understanding that religion just couldn't resolve.
The issue I have with choice 3) is that, again, it presumes a falsity. It assumes atheists don't believe in God because they actively refuse to (the rebellion mentality). It's based on reasoning most atheists just simply don't adhere to. We don't refuse to believe in God, we just don't see any reason to. If it requires faith (to believe in the face of absent evidence) to be believed, it's probably not based in reality.