If there were no God
Okay, here’s yet another question for you. If you were faced with absolute proof that there was no God, no afterlife and (assuming you are a Christian) that Jesus was just a myth would you change anything about your life? Would you reject the current values you are living or would you continue following those values?
God or no god I don’t see how that in and of itself has any bearing on whether I continue to live my life serving others, caring for others and forgiving others. I also can’t see how living my life a certain way only to attain a certain place in an afterlife could actually assure me that place in the afterlife.
Just a thought I had. I’d be interested in yours.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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I think I can say in all honest that no, it wouldn’t change a thing.
Largely because I already don’t believe in the religion that I was raised with
Hmmm… Seems like your readership might already be there. I believe that there’s no god and no afterlife, so it wouldn’t change my behavior.
But something I think I’ve noticed. I’ll bet that the Christians with whom I find values in common would mostly not only have the same response, but would say that anyone who’s behavior would change isn’t really a Christian. In much the same way that you can’t pay lip-service, suddenly say “I believe” without changing in your core how you view and interact with the world, if you’re doing things because you feel coerced by the Lord rather than because those are the things in your heart, your faith isn’t real.
Or that’s how I interpret what I think has been expressed to me.
Okay, Dan, faced with absolute proof that there was a god and an afterlife would you change the way you are living? Yeah, I know, it would depend on the god. Wouldn’t it?
Yep. Totally deity dependent. Which is why I get along with those Christians who see their god in that way.
The other Christians… well… If I were shown proof of their god and associated afterlife, I’d do whatever I could to piss ‘IM off, just on principle.
Although, personally, if I were gonna pick an afterlife I think I’d have to go with Valhalla. Fightin’ and drinkin’ and drinkin’ and fightin’… Sounds like my idea of heaven. Or a redneck bar out in Sequatchie county.