(May 29, 2015 at 2:56 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(May 26, 2015 at 7:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: If there is no God, then there is no hell; and if there is no hell, then there are no ultimate, eternal repercussions, good or bad, for how we live out our mortal lives. Of course, atheists insist that people should be "good without God."
But why? If God does not exist, why be good?
I'm quite nice so act nice.
Randys line of reasoning seems to be that only thing holding Christians in check from a bloody rampage is their fear of something that does not exist.
This worries me.
It should not worry you. They are wrong about that, like they are about so much else.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
