Question to Atheists:: Why not take a chance and believe?

dezert_storm

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Why would you want to believe in a God who could outlaw mixing fabrics but not slavery?
 

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It hurts plenty. We need to focus on combating REAL world problems. Many who buy into the life after death delusion either deny this or try to make it worse.

We've seen Muslims suicide bomb children's birthday parties believing that they'd get 72 virgins an alleged afterlife. Christian Zionists, a now very influential movement amongst conservatives, are willing to give the Israeli government whatever it wants, including wars which kill millions, in order to fulfill end times prophecies. Some Christians are similarly fine with doing nothing about climate change for similar reasons.

Suicide bombing is horrific. Actively trying to bring about the end the world is the worst thing people can do. As Voltaire said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can also make you commit atrocities."
what sort of words are those people feeding themselves?

if life after death is a delusion, then what were you before life?
 

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According to my previous faith, God created Angels who did nothing but worship him. Then at some point, he created beings with free will and will reward those that worship him with heaven, and condemn those that don't to the worst pit of fire imaginable for eternity.

Sounds like a malicious being with a requirement to be worshipped to me, but let these folks tell it he's a all-good being without need :francis:

This is why religion is all lies. All the qualities they attribute to God (anger, jealousy, craving attention) are human qualities. Man wrote the books according to their own ideas, agendas, and short comings. You still have people calling God "he" or saying God is a woman. An omnipotent being needs a sexual distinction for what exactly? Why would God have genitalia:heh:

Why would a being powerful enough to create an entire universe require the worship of humans? That means 99.999999999% of everything in existence is irrelevant. The billions of years before man existed are irrelevant. When man ceases to exist nothing will matter.

Religion is just antiquated and primitive thinking from a time when humans didn't think anything existed outside of this planet.

And how can man understand the mind of an omnipotent being? That's like saying ants understand humans.
 

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There are literally 4000 documented religious. How do you know you have the right one and the other thousands are incorrect? shyt, maybe the Vikings were right and we should die in battle so that we go to Valhalla :yeshrug:
 

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This is why religion is all lies. All the qualities they attribute to God (anger, jealousy, craving attention) are human qualities. Man wrote the books according to their own ideas, agendas, and short comings. You still have people calling God "he" or saying God is a woman. An omnipotent being needs a sexual distinction for what exactly? Why would God have genitalia:heh:

Why would a being powerful enough to create an entire universe require the worship of humans? That means 99.999999999% of everything in existence is irrelevant. The billions of years before man existed are irrelevant. When man ceases to exist nothing will matter.

Religion is just antiquated and primitive thinking from a time when humans didn't think anything existed outside of this planet.

And how can man understand the mind of an omnipotent being? That's like saying ants understand humans.
what if Ants do understand Humans? :ehh:

think about it

ants break down into drones, workers and queen

day in day out they work and gather, fight and kill, born and die all in service of a queen who produces new ants. And when a greater queen arises the ants viciously kill the brood of the prior queen and continue the cycle

sounds like most incels :francis:

the scriptures on the other hand make sons out of boys, fathers out of sons, and mothers out of girls, and grandmothers out of wives :ehh:

Exodus 20:5-6
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
 
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Thousands of Gods have been mentioned on this Earth.

you deny all of them except yours

an atheist just denies all of them and yours.

not a huge difference :yeshrug:

I always say the difference between me and religious/church/god nuts is they believe in One more god then I do.
 
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