RE: A question to atheists
February 12, 2015 at 3:41 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2015 at 3:42 am by Homeless Nutter.)
I don't even think the so-called "believers" actually believe in religion (except for the clinically insane ones). They confuse "belief" with "hope". They also take parts they like ("somehow I'm not going to die", "someone powerful cares about me") and disregard the rest.
If I truly believed I knew a way to live forever, happy as a pig in shit - like following the "word of god", for example - and someone I love strayed off that path, I'd go crazy. If someone in my family stopped believing in gravity and started endangering their life, by walking off roofs - I'd restrain them, if I had to. If my children started to play with fire, risking injury or death, due to ignorance of fire's properties - I would not stop reprimanding/punishing/restraining them, until they stopped, because I couldn't imagine ever being happy again, if something horrible happened to them.
And yet my catholic mother, who says she loves me (which I believe), passively watches her child walking right into hell. For eternity.
How can heaven be any good for a mother, if she knows her child is forever being tortured in hell, with no hope for redemption? Either she doesn't care about the child's fate in the afterlife, she claims to believe is real. Or she doesn't really believe religion is the only path to salvation. She just hopes death is not the end and whatever happens after - will work out fine for her family, somehow.
If I truly believed I knew a way to live forever, happy as a pig in shit - like following the "word of god", for example - and someone I love strayed off that path, I'd go crazy. If someone in my family stopped believing in gravity and started endangering their life, by walking off roofs - I'd restrain them, if I had to. If my children started to play with fire, risking injury or death, due to ignorance of fire's properties - I would not stop reprimanding/punishing/restraining them, until they stopped, because I couldn't imagine ever being happy again, if something horrible happened to them.
And yet my catholic mother, who says she loves me (which I believe), passively watches her child walking right into hell. For eternity.
How can heaven be any good for a mother, if she knows her child is forever being tortured in hell, with no hope for redemption? Either she doesn't care about the child's fate in the afterlife, she claims to believe is real. Or she doesn't really believe religion is the only path to salvation. She just hopes death is not the end and whatever happens after - will work out fine for her family, somehow.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
