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.
Religion | Larry D. Burton | 16 July 2006 |
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By Warkitty, 7/17/2006 @ 10:18 pm
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
By Dan Lyke, 7/19/2006 @ 4:35 pm
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.
By Larry D. Burton, 7/20/2006 @ 8:39 am
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?
By Dan Lyke, 7/20/2006 @ 1:46 pm
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.