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Old 06-17-2008, 04:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I choose to take the risk in believing, and have the chance of it paying off when I go to heaven. And if I'm wrong? Oh no, I wasted an hour a week at church! What a terrible commitment! I've made my choice, you've made yours.
Then what if it turns out to have been the wrong religion and you end up in hell? Hmm?
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Old 06-17-2008, 11:32 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Then what if it turns out to have been the wrong religion and you end up in hell? Hmm?
Won't you for being an atheist as well?
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Old 06-17-2008, 07:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Won't you for being an atheist as well?
But you don't have to devote your life to religion.
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Old 06-17-2008, 08:52 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Won't you for being an atheist as well?
Didn't Dante say something or other about Virtuous non-believers simply going to a calm plain when they die?

To be honest it's not where you go at the end of life, its the journey through life that matters. You don't need religion to have morals. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle didn't have a religion persay, just a philosophy on how to live. All you need is reason and intelligence.

So whether there is or isn't an afterlife, I'm still going to uphold those virtues (or at least try), not because a doctrine says I should, but because I want to. I know some people won't do the same, but who cares otherwise.
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Old 06-17-2008, 10:02 PM   #5 (permalink)
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To be honest it's not where you go at the end of life, its the journey through life that matters. You don't need religion to have morals. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle didn't have a religion persay, just a philosophy on how to live. All you need is reason and intelligence.
If that's the case, then I don't have to worry about believing in the wrong religion.
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