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Not Wanting to be an Atheist
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm
haven't you ever listened to ac/dc? they claim that "hell ain't a bad place to be." and personally i would trust them over any religious text
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 13, 2011 at 5:24 am (This post was last modified: January 13, 2011 at 5:26 am by Edwardo Piet.)
mamamia88 Wrote:haven't you ever listened to ac/dc? they claim that "hell ain't a bad place to be." and personally i would trust them over any religious text

Define "hell" without describing it as "eternal torment"/"eternal suffering" (or something to that effect) and I'll happily agree.
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 13, 2011 at 5:49 am
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 13, 2011 at 6:44 am
Nitsuj Wrote:The idea of Hell is simply designed to scare people into being good, ust like Santa Claus. You'll have a lot more fun in life if you stop thinking about there being a place called Hell, and just get on with it.

Perhaps, however to a lot of people hell is an place that is comforting. Because often people prosper rather than be punished in some way for their evil acts.
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 13, 2011 at 8:24 am
ziggystardust Wrote:Perhaps, however to a lot of people hell is an place that is comforting. Because often people prosper rather than be punished in some way for their evil acts.

If you define hell that way, sure.
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 16, 2011 at 12:47 am
is elizabeth hurley really the devil? if so then sign me up
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 18, 2011 at 2:13 pm
(January 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm)mamamia88 Wrote: haven't you ever listened to ac/dc? they claim that "hell ain't a bad place to be." and personally i would trust them over any religious text

I love you forever for quoting that.
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RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 21, 2011 at 1:18 am
I used to feel the same my friend, but please don't ever consider Pascal's Wager because it is proposing a 50/50 bet, and it does not include the thousands of other possibilities that you may be worshipping the WRONG God. It's just a terrible reason to believe, and if anyone ever pulls out the Pascal's Wager card, study up and you can absolutely DESTROY it.
Yes, at first atheism is a bit cold, but Mark Twain's quote put a nice little spark in my day with this, "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." If you really think about it, we actually DO have personal evidence that there is NOTHING when we are dead because if you try to remember back before you were born, it's just nothingness. It's total BLISS!!! Praising God at His feet forever and ever singing hymns sounds pretty damn dull to me. But hey, if you fancy that type of thing, I can maybe see why you would want to believe in Jesus. Wink
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
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