A question for all the atheist here, If you thought you were going to die would you pray to a god hoping to get an afterlife?

Once, during a flight the pilot basically said that we might all die, and I must admit I thought about it for a moment but then i thought do I want to spend my last minutes alive selling-out everything I believe in, so I didn't, and I survived, yay for me.

I'm Agnostic, I'm not sure...so selling out in the last 5 minutes...why not, it's not like I have anything to lose. Execpt MY SOUL MUAHAHA

I don't believe in a concious god. At least not a god that's concious in any way concieveable to us. But, I still pray. It's more like meditation for me, but I still do it just to do it.

Cheers,

Lost

"Do" what ?

Why bother ?

Agnostic, Atheists are just as ignorant as preachers. And if they really don't believe in god, he will know and they will still go to hell because they don't truely believe.

quote:Originally posted by captain_kirk:

Agnostic, Atheists are just as ignorant as preachers. And if they really don't believe in god, he will know and they will still go to hell because they don't truely believe.

Assuming a higher judge of faith exists...

I'm an Athesis and I would in all honesty sit back with a huge ass grin on my face thinking i wonder if all these yr's i've been right if not o well

quote:There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole (http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-war.html)

There was an Enlightenment philosopher, his name escapes me, who said that everyone should be Christian, because if there's no God, it doesn't make a difference, but if there is one and you don't pray then you're fucked. This seems foolish to me, because wouldn't the Christian God easily know if you were Christian only because of fear of the alternative, and that you don't have any 'true' faith?

So my beliefs, and any logical reasoning makes me say no, I would not pray, but I think if the shit hit the fan I'd be on my knees gripping a crucifix in two seconds.

quote:There was an Enlightenment philosopher, his name escapes me, who said that everyone should be Christian, because if there's no God, it doesn't make a difference, but if there is one and you don't pray then you're fucked. Pascal originally came up with that. I'm agnostic, and I'd never pray to a god that I don't believe in.

quote:Originally posted by -Mephisto-:

A question for all the atheist here, If you thought you were going to die would you pray to a god hoping to get an afterlife?



if someone prays to a god then they must think that it exists. hence they are no athiest. ask a less stupid question next time.

quote:Originally posted by Sniper Piper: There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole (http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-war.html)

That's not an argument against atheists, you know, it's an argument against foxholes.

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Man made god, god didn't make man. Human minds are too incomplex to grasp the concept of infinity. My theory is that the big bang has happened an infinite amount of times. The universe is continually expanding, and then collapsing into an extremely dense point of matter.

The universe has a set amount of atoms. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. When you die, your atoms are recycled.

As for the afterlife, I believe there is no afterlife. It isn't scientifically feasible. There are many accounts of people having hallucinations before they die, due to different chemicals being released in the brain (similar to tripping on acid). People who have "come back" to tell the story often confuse this with the afterlife.



Religion is control.

We cannot know what happens after death, it is impossible. With that in mind, how can we be punished based on this huge piece of information that is forever inaccessible to us? Thus an all-just judge cannot punish "his creatures" for having differing beliefs when this piece of the puzzle is missing. It would be the ultimate injustice to punish people for something they can never know. As God is all just, he can't do that.

Personally I see no need to believe in such a God. What religion you are is based on where and when you live, and the experiences you've based upon your environment.

If people would become more accepting of each other instead of bickering over silly things like religion, then the world would be a much happier place, and we'd have no need to conceive of a heaven, or a hell.