What would you do....

[americanwoman]

What would you do- if the opposite of your religion turned out to be true.

If there was absolute without a doubt proof that the religion opposite of yours turned out to be the 'true' religion.

For instance you are a devout Christian and Allah comes out of the sky and proclaims Islam is the correct religion and all other religions must now accept Allah as their God.

How would that type of event change your life and your views and what would you do?

 

[celticlord]

Look for the jackass who spiked my whiskey

 

[1069]

What would you do- if the opposite of your religion turned out to be true.

If there was absolute without a doubt proof that the religion opposite of yours turned out to be the 'true' religion.

For instance you are a devout Christian and Allah comes out of the sky and proclaims Islam is the correct religion and all other religions must now accept Allah as their God.

How would that type of event change your life and your views and what would you do?

I am an atheist.
If the Biblical Christ turned out to be real, however, i still would not worship him.
I do not bow to tyranny.

 

[rivrrat]

Depends on which god[dess] it was that presented themselves. Since I am an atheist, ANY god or goddess would be the opposite of my lack of belief.

If it was the god of the christian bible, I would him to **** off. Ditto for the muslim god.

I would be more accepting of some of the polytheistic religious gods[desses] though.

 

[Anima]

Tell Allah or the Christian God that their exstence was no reason for me to worship them, in light of my disgust with their behaviour as portrayed within the holy books of their respective faiths, and go on with my life as before.

 

[Goshin]

If it was the god of the christian bible, I would him to **** off. Ditto for the muslim god.

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I mean no disrespect; actually I rather like you and it is not my wish to anger you or cause you to think badly of me.

But I have to say that when you are in the presence of God, sarcastic remarks are going to be the last thing on your mind. The presence of the Creator of the universe is not like anything else... a hundred kings and dictators and presidents together are a mosquito by comparison.

I know you don't believe me and will consider me self-deluded or whatever, but I had to say it anyway.


We now return to your regularly scheduled atheistic programming. :mrgreen:

 

[1069]

I mean no disrespect; actually I rather like you and it is not my wish to anger you or cause you to think badly of me.

But I have to say that when you are in the presence of God, sarcastic remarks are going to be the last thing on your mind. The presence of the Creator of the universe is not like anything else... a hundred kings and dictators and presidents together are a mosquito by comparison.

I know you don't believe me and will consider me self-deluded or whatever, but I had to say it anyway.


We now return to your regularly scheduled atheistic programming. :mrgreen:

I don't think she's being "sarcastic".
I know I'm not.
The respective deities of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are all remarkably similar in their insistence on females- which we are- being an inferior life form.

I would- I promise you- have no problem telling Allah, Yahweh, and/or the Biblical God to **** the **** off.

Even if any or all of them were somehow proven to be real, I would never- not in a million years- believe that their opinion of me is valid. Tyrants and bullies who know nothing about me. They can eat a dick.

Trust me, this is not sarcasm.

 

[rivrrat]

I mean no disrespect; actually I rather like you and it is not my wish to anger you or cause you to think badly of me.

But I have to say that when you are in the presence of God, sarcastic remarks are going to be the last thing on your mind. The presence of the Creator of the universe is not like anything else... a hundred kings and dictators and presidents together are a mosquito by comparison.

I know you don't believe me and will consider me self-deluded or whatever, but I had to say it anyway.


We now return to your regularly scheduled atheistic programming. :mrgreen:

I wasn't being sarcastic. I was being completely and 100% serious. I find the god of the christian and muslim bibles to be sadistic, unforgivably cruel, sexist, completely self involved, evil, arrogant, tyrannical pieces of ****. THAT is what would be on my mind, and the result of that would be to tell them to **** off. I would want no part of such a ****ed up, evil being. Both of them honestly disgust me. The christian one more so than the muslim one

I mean no offense to people who do choose to worship such beings, but that's just the way I feel. It would be impossible for me to even consider paying any mind to anything like that.

Now, if said gods wanted to explain to me that the bible was all wrong, then I'd be willing to listen to them but I offer no promises about how I would feel about them afterward.

 

[Stoopid]

Ok, so I dont usually get involved around here, but here goes...

I mean no disrespect; actually I rather like you and it is not my wish to anger you or cause you to think badly of me.

But I have to say that when you are in the presence of God, sarcastic remarks are going to be the last thing on your mind. The presence of the Creator of the universe is not like anything else... a hundred kings and dictators and presidents together are a mosquito by comparison.

I know you don't believe me and will consider me self-deluded or whatever, but I had to say it anyway.


We now return to your regularly scheduled atheistic programming. :mrgreen:

A quote from Mark Twain for ya...

...a God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
-Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

I really do not understand why people worship the Christian God, or any of the other major religious gods. No one agreed to his rules on eternity, no one agreed to his rules on creation. Why do people worship someone who has committed the greatest sins "he" rails against, for hope of an eternal life he provides?

Why would someone pay homage to this being who has acted completely against what he is said to teach? So why, in the presence of such a great hypocrite, should I suddenly bow down?

 

[Arch Enemy]

If Pokemon turned out to be fiction then I am pretty sure I would kill myself.

But it can't be.. my Charizard is out battling Ivysaurs as we speak.

 

[Oftencold]

I'm always confused by the Atheist's rather schizophrenic position that there is no purpose to Creation, yet there is a morality by which it might be judged. That there is no Gods, but that they scorn Him, are Angry at Him. Or that they judge Him, again using who-knows-what for a basis.

They claim to have a morality based on sweet reason, which cannot admit compassion or mercy. Indeed, since life is merely and accidentally evolved mechanism in this view, there really isn't anything to show compassion to.

Religions are certainly inconsistent in their rationality, but Athiesm seems wholly incoherent.

But that's just my extraordinarily superior opinion.

 

[Arch Enemy]

You will find it more often that Atheists' purpose is not to deny Jesus and the metaphysical entity that is God, but more to dissolve the confines that man has laid for his fellow men based on the Bible.

 

[Real Korimyr #9]

I must admit to being confused by this idea that there is a religion "opposite" to my own.

If I awoke one day to incontrovertible proof that the Aesir and Vanir did not exist, or were terrible villains, I'd stop venerating them and making offerings to them. Wouldn't change a single damn thing else about my life, either spiritually or morally.

If I discovered that the god of the Jews was the only true god, that he was the Creator of the Universe and that he judged every soul in the hour of their death... I'd have to stop and think about that good and hard before I could come up with a meaningful answer. I think a lot would have to be determined on the basis of whom among all of his worshipers is actually getting it right, and what he actually expects of us in this life and in the next.

I would either become devout in the form of worship he prefers, or I would openly oppose him-- which, regardless of what the fundamentalists say, I currently have no interest in.

 

[Cilogy]

For instance you are a devout Christian and Allah comes out of the sky and proclaims Islam is the correct religion and all other religions must now accept Allah as their God.

Allah is the opposite of Christ? :rofl You are hilarious.

How would that type of event change your life and your views and what would you do?

I'm an atheist Hindu (yeah that sounds screwed up doesn't it?) but I separate "belief" in god from the morals and philosophies that I follow in Hinduism.

I guess if it turned out god was real then I would still not worship because if I were to be a devout follower, it would mean that I give up some control over my life. I would rather make my own decisions rather than have some being in the sky tell me what's best.

I would just continue doing what I set out to do all my life.

 

[Tucker Case]

I'd probably blow a priest if it gets me in good with God.

 

[Oftencold]

You will find it more often that Atheists' purpose is not to deny Jesus and the metaphysical entity that is God, but more to dissolve the confines that man has laid for his fellow men based on the Bible.

You mean the confines like, "don't murder, don't steal, don't lie, be nice to Mom and Dad?"

Freedom without limit is equally toxic to limit without freedom.

 

[1069]

Freedom without limit is equally toxic to limit without freedom.

Then choose your poison, and leave others alone to choose theirs.

 

[Kali]

Look for the jackass who spiked my whiskey

Or wonder if I had gotten a bad batch of weed:rofl

 

[Kali]

If Pokemon turned out to be fiction then I am pretty sure I would kill myself.

But it can't be.. my Charizard is out battling Ivysaurs as we speak.

I love Pikachu!

 

[WI Crippler]

I'd **** my pants if Scientology turned out to be true.

 

[rivrrat]

I'm always confused by the Atheist's rather schizophrenic position that there is no purpose to Creation, yet there is a morality by which it might be judged. That there is no Gods, but that they scorn Him, are Angry at Him. Or that they judge Him, again using who-knows-what for a basis.

I scorn and judge characters in many fictional stories I read. Why would the many gods and goddess characters be any different. What do I use as a basis? My own opinion.

They claim to have a morality based on sweet reason, which cannot admit compassion or mercy. Indeed, since life is merely and accidentally evolved mechanism in this view, there really isn't anything to show compassion to.

How can there be nothing to show compassion to when the world is full of creatures to show compassion to? You make no sense.

 

[WI Crippler]

I'd also be upset if Wicca was proven to be verifiable. To think a bunch of toad licking feminists got it right, and the spell casting doesn't even have any cool **** just makes it seem like existence has really been a waste of time.

 

[Tucker Case]

I'd also be upset if Wicca was proven to be verifiable. To think a bunch of toad licking feminists got it right, and the spell casting doesn't even have any cool **** just makes it seem like existence has really been a waste of time.

If it meant more sex with crazy bitches on toad juice, I'd be in favor of Wicca being right.

 

[WI Crippler]

If it meant more sex with crazy bitches on toad juice, I'd be in favor of Wicca being right.

Wiccans hate football.

There, now how do you feel about them with this stunning revelation that I just proclaimed without any investigative study or facts to back me up. Huh?

 

[Tucker Case]

Wiccans hate football.

There, now how do you feel about them with this stunning revelation that I just proclaimed without any investigative study or facts to back me up. Huh?

My response to this disconcerting news would be considered "Hate Speech" and it would get me banned, so I think I'll keep it to myself.