If you are religious, and you give or devote your life to a religion, or let that religion sway you in any way in life, you have given up sovereignty, to varying degrees of course depending on circumstances, to said religion.
Not true. The whole point of religion is continually choosing to believe and act upon a specific set of things. The minute any religion (be it Communism, Catholicism, or Islam) is forced on you, it ceases to be religion and becomes mere coercion, which defeats the point of religion. I choose to be a Christian, using my God-given sovereignty to do what I know and believe to be right. By your logic, if you dedicate yourself to any ideals, you are giving up your sovereignty to those ideals.
I don’t care about anything else but the question of “what happens when we die?” and I’m convinced physics has the answer.
Since there is no such thing as “nothing”, non-existence after death is theoretically impossible.
Sure, our physical body isn’t here anymore. Our bodies might die and decay but the body is just a shell. But who WE are as a person has taken some other form of consciousness. I do believe we have a soul. Either that or we simply “re-boot” ala reincarnation of some sort.
The question then becomes this: If you believe that you will still be conscious after you die, and there is a fifty-fifty chance that God exists (since technically no one can prove that He doesn’t), then why would you ever bet against that? If you were a criminal on trial, and the judge said “you have two choices: choice number one is that I flip this coin, and if it lands on heads, I send you off to life in prison in Somalia. Choice number two is that you agree to sign up for this rehabilitation program and do some hard labor, and either way, you will be free after six years”, which would you take? Besides, there is still no way I’m believing that nothing can evolve to become as sophisticated as the universe around us. Not until I see it happen outside a lab, that is.
I don’t believe in a god. If I did, I would have to assume he/she/it was a cruel, perverted, nasty mother f~~~er who just simply created the whole universe so he could watch people suffer and eventually die. A being who would invent and demand prayer, with no intent to answer. One who would punish a lifetime of devotion with pain and ruin, while rewarding evil with all the pleasures life has to offer, all on a seemingly random basis. That may seem harsh, but it is pretty much how the Greeks saw their gods.
I would say that your statements are based on faulty logic:
What if God created people with free will, and they chose to screw things up for themselves while fully knowing the consequences?
What if, like a teacher knowing some of his students would make mistakes, drop out of school, and fail anyways, He signed up to give people an option to do what they were built to do. What if what God wants us to do is merely what we were originally made to do?
What if, instead of “having no intent to listen”, God hears everything, sees everything, and knows everything? What if He knows when to intervene according to the plan He has, and that if He intervened every time someone asked Him to, the world would certainly not be perfect, but would instead be full of people who used God like a candy machine?
What if God sees every person who devoted his life to serving Him, and when they die, there IS something after death, that something being a reward greater than any of us could ever imagine?
What if God doesn’t reward evildoers at all, but instead allows them to exercise their free will within the boundaries He set up? What if, when they die, they are given every bit of what they really deserve?
All of your statements have plausible alternative explanations. You have obviously become discouraged, but I would urge you to reconsider.
Just a misogynist virgin hiding away in his mother's basement. Nothing to see here...
IGMOW (I Go My Own Way) 4 years ago.
