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What if?

It's hard to think of life after death, I mean sure we could just be simply dead but if it's not that the case then what? It's brain wracking to think about but what if god did exist, and you lived your whole life as an atheist only to die and go to hell, how would you feel? If you could go back would you be "saved"?

Lucindayvonne 3 Jan 25
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If I died and found out god was real, I’d tell him what a piece of shit he was and if he wanted to be all macho and send me to hell then so be it. I would go to Hell happy, knowing I had more class than he could ever have. When that thought of hell comes to mind, just ask yourself these simple question and it will ease your mind that much more.

  1. If hell is actually real then that would mean 80 percent of the world is going there. Does that seem just when there are tons of religions that claim to be true, yet the true god refused to prove he’s the one and only god?

  2. Why would god allow people to be born, knowing in advance where everyone would be predestined to go, only to send them to the lake of fire, anyway?

  3. If god created hell for the devil and his demons, so why create them if he knew they’d turn evil?

  4. Free will? What’s the point of giving free will when god would already know that person is capable of making destructive choices?

Just ask yourself things like this when those thoughts come to mind or even if a believer try to threaten you with this ridiculous threat. Challenge them with these types of questions about Hell or free will in general since they love to use that method. I hope I helped.

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Well have all these comments and answers helped? your very young and you live in LAKEVIEW? now that is a quaint little town. I used to fight fire with the forest service........staged in lake view more than a time or two .......I do love the high desert......PEACE

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When I'm asked, "what if" I have to consider whether it has any evidence and is even a logical possibility. Did you ever think that maybe someone cooked up all this religious mumbo-jumbo just to exploit other people? One thing I believe is that P.T. Barnum was right. Would you buy life insurance that paid if you were trampled by elephants?

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Many of the celebrity atheists, when asked a similar question, quoted S. L. Clemens, and I paraphrase; I don't recall anything unpleasant before I was born, and I have no hesitation in returning there.
Works for me.

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If there is a hell and I go there, I'd prefer it to the notion of non-existence, it's harder to conceptualize, for me, the absence of thought because I'm trying to think about not thinking which people compare to dreamless sleep, but since I've always woken up I can't quite use it as a foundation because my mind tries to go out to infinity, death is forever and I love life and will take a torturous eternity where I maintain my thoughts over reality; but as an atheist who can't lie to himself I know it's a pipe dream and that when I die I will never wake up, and that's where the terror sets in.

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There are more choices then god or no god. If you choose god, which god do you choose? Which god do you prefer to make angry? If I died and found out there was some version of hell I would feel cheated because all the evidence points to god. If we don't go on evidence then "god" expects us to get it in random chance?

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Which god are you referring to?

Every religion and even different christian religions have different ideas about heaven and hell.

So which hell or afterlife do you mean?

If you are talking about christians who can be total shits and accept Jesus as their saviour on their deathbed and so go to heaven - no I wouldn't go back to be saved. Why would I want to be a part of such an immoral regime?

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Pascal Wager overload!

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Essentially, what happens is our brains release an overdose amount DMT and we hallucinate and that's why some people think they see heaven or hell. Whatever is in their belief system will be what they see. But after that, our brain receptors shut off and we power down...similar to like flipping a light switch and the nothingness.

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