Gamingphreek
Lifer
- Mar 31, 2003
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Originally posted by: thraashman
As far as what I'd do if I found out God wasn't real. Well I'll start by saying that I'm an Atheist, so quite frankly not much would change for me. I have a feeling I may end up having to spend time with some friends who have trouble if it was a worldwide everyone finds out God isn't real thing.
Now, if I were religious and I was present with incontravertable evidence that God didn't exist. I think first I'd brow beat Pat Robertson. Then I'd do everything I could to continue living a good life. I guess I feel that people who live their life for God aren't actually living their life. Sometimes it seems like people don't think straight about God. They think "hey, God gave me this great gift called life and all he wants me to do with it is thank him." That's like if a friend gave me a really really cool gift but told me the only condition upon which I could keep it is if I thanked him constantly .... and made sure that I only used the gift when he was around and always let him use it first, and basically didn't get to enjoy the gift for what it is.
It's as simple as this. If a god exists and it's benevolent, then God doesn't care if you believe or not so long as you live your life by good principles. If a god exists and wants you to spend all your life praising him and would punish you for not believing regardless of your acts, then that god is not benevolent and is in fact the most evil being in existence. So even if I was proved God did exist, but it was proved to me that God would punish non-believers, even if I knew for a fact that God existed, I would dedicate my life to destroying the belief in that God. Not because I want people to suffer, but because the more people that are in the end NOT on the side of that evil god, the better chance of there being enough souls to depose God and put in a benevolent leader. Kinda like a military coup, but without the natural totalitarian dictatorship that follows. Truthfully, most of the time it seems to me that God is presented as the most vicious, horrible, totalitarian dictator there is. Most "believers" are simply afraid NOT to believe in God, which is a sad, sad existence.
At least you have some basis for your reasoning, and aren't just saying it because you can.
I don't mean to insult you but I did want to clarify some things.
They think "hey, God gave me this great gift called life and all he wants me to do with it is thank him.
I do not recall a passage in the Bible stating that you should spend your entire life thanking him. It says that Jesus came to save us and that we are supposed to live in his image. We are supposed to (yet we always fall short) of leading a sin-less life.
Additionally we (And by we I mean Christians) are supposed to spread God's word so that all may know of his compassion and glory.
If a god exists and wants you to spend all your life praising him and would punish you for not believing regardless of your acts
The Bible never states that you will be punished if you don't spend your entire life praising God for every waking moment of the day. Not only that for people who don't believe it states that Jesus died to save us from out sins. He was the ultimate sacrifice. He died so that we (We meaning everyone) may not perish but have eternal life.
There is no expiration date. All one would need to do is ask for forgiveness.
Truthfully, most of the time it seems to me that God is presented as the most vicious, horrible, totalitarian dictator there is.
Do you have any evidence for this? I don't mean to offend you in any way, but what leads you to believe this?
Most "believers" are simply afraid NOT to believe in God, which is a sad, sad existence.
People who believe in God are not afraid to believe in something else. It is our choice to believe in God. And we believe that our choice is right with every bone in our body. Being scared has nothing to do with it...where did you get this idea?
-Kevin