13th April 2003, 1:23 PM
So, you want proof of all of this? Too bad. I want proof that going to college will give me a better life. Does that mean that, since there isn't concrete proof it will benefit me, I shouldn't go after it? The same is true with faith, only on a much, much larger scale.
Taking a risk that something may benefit you is one thing. Religion is another. There isn't even any remote proof of it ever being real; you believe in it because you've been indoctrinated from birth. You probably will believe in it all your life, without every seeing any confirmation in any way. That's not "faith" as you call it, thats blindness. Every religion uses it; it's an old trick.
You say that we have to prove ourselves good enough to enter heaven, but having faith in God. What of all those people who live outside the dominion of Christianity, like Zulus and all those who've never been infect by the glorious gospel? They're all condemned to eternity in hell because of that? Only one in six people are going to heaven...? That disproportinate number makes me think that the huge suffering isn't worth the miniscule number who'd be saved, and that thusly, God should end humanity immediately.
....?
...still around.
Taking a risk that something may benefit you is one thing. Religion is another. There isn't even any remote proof of it ever being real; you believe in it because you've been indoctrinated from birth. You probably will believe in it all your life, without every seeing any confirmation in any way. That's not "faith" as you call it, thats blindness. Every religion uses it; it's an old trick.
You say that we have to prove ourselves good enough to enter heaven, but having faith in God. What of all those people who live outside the dominion of Christianity, like Zulus and all those who've never been infect by the glorious gospel? They're all condemned to eternity in hell because of that? Only one in six people are going to heaven...? That disproportinate number makes me think that the huge suffering isn't worth the miniscule number who'd be saved, and that thusly, God should end humanity immediately.
....?
...still around.
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