RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2015 at 5:15 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 5, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: [...]Well, which is it?
Does God, as Christians understand Him, judge harshly and send people who do not deserve it into hell for eternity?
Or is God merciful and allow people who do not deserve it into heaven?
First of all - there is no god. That's what atheists mostly go on about...
Secondly - why would you even think those are mutually exclusive options? Christian version of god is a crappy mythological figure created by bronze-age goat-herders, of course he gets it wrong on both accounts. He threatens eternal punishment for trivialities (like blasphemy, or premarital sex), while gives a loophole for clever sinners, to get into paradise, regardless of their crimes (except blasphemy against the holy spirit, apparently).
"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
