Thread: Question for Atheists.

You're question is not weird. There's no such thing as a bad question.

The day that I became an Atheist was when I realized God was a tyrant. I used to swing back forth believing and not believing. I asked a lot people mainly religious friends, family, and a minister. I asked them, "Do Atheists go to heaven?" The unanimous answer was "no". Big surprise there. Thne I asked them, "What if an Atheist lives an honest life? He or she doesn't steal, kill, lie, use people,and just lives a good and honest life?" The response: it's impossible to get into heaven without believing in God. Atheists will go to Hell.
I started thinking to myself: What kind of God would do that? I mean, an honest person deserves to get into heaven. Then an epiphany came to me: God is a tyrant. A true God would not be jealous. A true God would not allow genocide to occur on His planet. A true God would allow a decent person into heaven. Regardless whether or not that person believed in Him.

That's a quick summary of my beliefs

I don't think I ever really believed in God. I mean, my mom would always basically force my sister, my brother, and I into going to church every Sunday, but I can't ever recall genuinely believing or praying.

Sundays were the worst. I would have rather went to school, and I hated school when I was that young.

I was never interested in the idea of a god. Never really thought about it never really cared. If someone had of asked me if I believed I would have told them no. It wasn't until I was about 18 when science began to strike my interest. Once I learned about evolution it was basically gameover for any lingering doubts I had that maybe god did exist. Here was an explanation of how we got here, billions of years in the making, I had no reason to look elsewhere.

So that's basically my religious history.

Originally Posted by RSFAD

God is a tyrant.

Amen!

Originally Posted by RSFAD

A true God would not be jealous. A true God would not allow genocide to occur on His planet. A true God would allow a decent person into heaven. Regardless whether or not that person believed in Him.

That realization is what changed me from agnostic to atheist. How I went from Christian to agnostic is another story.

Originally Posted by RSFAD

I used to swing back forth believing and not believing. I asked a lot people mainly religious friends, family, and a minister. I asked them, "Do Atheists go to heaven?" The unanimous answer was "no". Big surprise there. Thne I asked them, "What if an Atheist lives an honest life? He or she doesn't steal, kill, lie, use people,and just lives a good and honest life?" The response: it's impossible to get into heaven without believing in God. Atheists will go to Hell.

I wondered the same. I asked is Gandhi in hell if he was such a nice guy. No answer was given to me. If Gandhi was christian he'd probably be canonized by now.

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I wondered the same. I asked is Gandhi in hell if he was such a nice guy. No answer was given to me. If Gandhi was christian he'd probably be canonized by now.

80% of Christians believe they will go to heaven. 60% or 70% (one of the two) think Mother Teressa will go to heaven.

Originally Posted by RSFAD

You're question is not weird. There's no such thing as a bad question.

Oh yes there is

What is a jabloflucanometer devided by 5?? ehh? EHH???

Originally Posted by moskowfreak1111

What is a jabloflucanometer devided by 5?? ehh? EHH???

Oh, that's easy. It's the ratio of nine Fusiofluxards to one molecule of ethyl-methyl ether.

Originally Posted by RSFAD

A true God would not allow genocide to occur on His planet

Did anyone ever thing of population control? We don't want to over flood with people, do we? We also do not want to waste to much resources, do we? Any one who believes would also notice that when you die, you have an after life, so why is pop. control so scary to some people? (not meaning RSFAD)

Originally Posted by moskowfreak1111

Did anyone ever thing of population control? We don't want to over flood with people, do we? We also do not want to waste to much resources, do we? Any one who believes would also notice that when you die, you have an after life, so why is pop. control so scary to some people? (not meaning RSFAD)

Because, you know, instilling us with the common sense to limit our child bearing is so much less humane than letting one group of people rape, torture, and kill members of another.

Originally Posted by Mario92

Because, you know, instilling us with the common sense to limit our child bearing is so much less humane than letting one group of people rape, torture, and kill members of another.

Stopping child birth? In what natural ways? If he won't use natural ways, he could just make people disappear... Also I was talking about mass extermination type of genocide (holocaust will be an example) and being killed/tortured/raped would be worth living in paradise for infinity or w/e or at least become a ghost.

Originally Posted by moskowfreak1111

Stopping child birth? In what natural ways? If he won't use natural ways, he could just make people disappear... Also I was talking about mass extermination type of genocide (holocaust will be an example) and being killed/tortured/raped would be worth living in paradise for infinity or w/e or at least become a ghost.

That just seems so...perverse. It's really taking the blame away from humans and placing it on the shoulders of some divine being. Hitler was responsible...a product of the human race murdered those people, not god.

Originally Posted by Mario92

That just seems so...perverse. It's really taking the blame away from humans and placing it on the shoulders of some divine being. Hitler was responsible...a product of the human race murdered those people, not god.

I fighting for the argument that Hitler is good, do you realize that? So if you blame him for good then...

Originally Posted by moskowfreak1111

I fighting for the argument that Hitler is good, do you realize that? So if you blame him for good then...

I'm fighting for the argument that Hitler was a mass-murdering fuckhead. The people he murdered had no significant impact on overpopulation, and were killed for no other reason than being Jewish or disabled. There is no way to justify the deeds he consciously, wittingly carried out.

Originally Posted by moskowfreak1111

Did anyone ever thing of population control? We don't want to over flood with people, do we?

Hehehe... speaking of "flood"...

Originally Posted by moskowfreak1111

Did anyone ever thing of population control? We don't want to over flood with people, do we? We also do not want to waste to much resources, do we? Any one who believes would also notice that when you die, you have an after life, so why is pop. control so scary to some people? (not meaning RSFAD)

Did god ever think of giving us more space and more resources? Yeah, dying's not a big deal.