RE: Where do we go when we die and are you afraid?
July 22, 2020 at 8:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2020 at 8:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that, ultimately, the "what if" question has an unsatisfying answer. What if atheists are wrong? You tell us. If a good person who doesn't believe in heaven, or hell, or god, dies..what then? What is the what if? Vague threats of eternal damnation?
If a god wants to throw me in the pit, there's nothing that I can do about that. It's going to happen. Trying to believe isn't going to change the fact that I don't anymore than trying to flap my arms is going to turn me into a bird, and even if it could...I'd have to pick the right god to believe in. Assuming that, somehow, all of this did work, and I could try my way into belief, and I did pick the right belief, and I did get the cookie....so what? What does any of that have to do with right or wrong, or being good to people?
That's a scheme for sneaking into a themepark in the sky, not ethics.
If a god wants to throw me in the pit, there's nothing that I can do about that. It's going to happen. Trying to believe isn't going to change the fact that I don't anymore than trying to flap my arms is going to turn me into a bird, and even if it could...I'd have to pick the right god to believe in. Assuming that, somehow, all of this did work, and I could try my way into belief, and I did pick the right belief, and I did get the cookie....so what? What does any of that have to do with right or wrong, or being good to people?
That's a scheme for sneaking into a themepark in the sky, not ethics.
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