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Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 26, 2018 at 6:27 pm
"Hands up everyone in this room who is going to heaven!

"Not so fast, kid!"

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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 26, 2018 at 6:37 pm
(July 26, 2018 at 3:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'No, love, you aren't going to Heaven, but something much more wonderful is going to happen.  When your body stops working, you'll sleep forever and ever.  But the part of you that's left will break down into a million, jillion teeny pieces and become part of everything in the whole world - trees, bumblebees, the oceans - just everything.  And those tiny bits of you will never, ever go away. You're going to be part of everything forever and ever, so you aren't really going away.'

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Can you say that to me on my deathbed
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 26, 2018 at 6:37 pm
"Here kid, let me adjust your morphine drip for you...."
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 26, 2018 at 6:51 pm
(July 25, 2018 at 1:37 pm)DodosAreDead Wrote: Assume the child is very young, somewhere in the range of 4-8, perhaps? Their parents are religious. They're worried about hell. What will your response be?
There is no reason to believe in hell and their is no reason to believe in heaven.Believe in the here and now and be the best you can be and if that's not good enough for a god why would you want to live with him forever .
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 26, 2018 at 7:07 pm (This post was last modified: July 26, 2018 at 7:07 pm by Alexmahone.)
"No, you can't go to Norway in this condition."
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 26, 2018 at 7:17 pm
(July 26, 2018 at 3:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'No, love, you aren't going to Heaven, but something much more wonderful is going to happen.  When your body stops working, you'll sleep forever and ever.  But the part of you that's left will break down into a million, jillion teeny pieces and become part of everything in the whole world - trees, bumblebees, the oceans - just everything.  And those tiny bits of you will never, ever go away. You're going to be part of everything forever and ever, so you aren't really going away.'

Boru

JFC, this thread is killing me! 😭
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 26, 2018 at 8:39 pm (This post was last modified: July 26, 2018 at 8:40 pm by Whateverist.)
(July 26, 2018 at 12:08 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Sure, heaven is a real possibility.  And monkey's might fly out of my butt.  Just watch and you'll be amazed.


Probably so .. monkeys or no monkeys.
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 27, 2018 at 7:54 pm
(July 26, 2018 at 12:03 pm)Alexmahone Wrote:
(July 26, 2018 at 7:08 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I'd lie to him/her and say "Yes, you're going to Heaven." Because theists have made that acceptable.

Atheists agree there's no good reason to believe that there's a Heaven. But this is different from proving there's no Heaven. So, going to Heaven is a real possibility.

Am I wrong?

You have to prove there is a Heaven.
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 27, 2018 at 8:08 pm
(July 26, 2018 at 5:56 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Tell them that there;s no such place.  Then I'll tell them that I took their kitty cat to a farm upstate and killed it.

OTOH, you can also say that they aren't going to fucking hell, either.  It's a wash.
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RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
July 27, 2018 at 10:26 pm
I'd give them permission to come back and haunt me.

Any kid that talks to me knows I'm an ass.
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