So you believe that if someone never had a chance to believe in the Christian God, and was a good person their entire life, they are going to suffer unimaginable torture in Hell for all eternity, and deserve it?
God will still judge you based on the laws He set so you wont necessarily go to hell. even if you were not given a chance to believe in God, once you die you can still repent and ask for forgiveness.
Here's why I'm an atheist:
1. Think about the how long man has existed. If Christianity began about 2000 years ago, they what happened to all the people before that who were never introduced to it? Did God just send all of mankind up until around when Jesus started preaching to hell? It must be crowded to the brim then.Christianity was created when Jesus died on teh cross for our sins so it is a new covenant with God and his people, everything before that were previous ways to get into heaven like the ten commandments, and just worshipping God. So no.
2. To believe in Christianity you must believe in some type of soul, which is sent to the after life. This soul is necessary for life to... well... be alive. I simply define being alive as the function of your cells. Dying is just when the cells malfunction and start to decompose and the atoms are recycled back into the Earth.Spiritual Body + Physical Body (cells) = You
3. There have been HUGE amounts of religion ever since man started asking questions. Each of the believers of these religions truly thought that they had found the right answer. But eventually the religions died out. What makes Christianity and Islam or any other religion out there any different. In 1000 to 2000 years these will be gone too. And they increasing amount of scientific information we are discovering is becoming more readily available to the public. Now that we have access to actual answers for some of the once baffling questions we no longer have to turn to wild guesses. Things happen for a reason beyond our understanding, why do you think we dont know for sure why we were created, or how everything started. God will reveal to us what he wants to be revealed in time.
4. Animals. If animals are alive than that would mean that they would have to have souls too. But to animals believe in god? some animals don't even have the ability to think, much less believe in a god. Do these animals get sent to hell?In the bible it says Man has dominion over beast. So animals dont have human spiritual souls. Animals do think, Dogs sit when their owners tell them to sit, a lion searches for its prey when it is hungry and knows it has to feed its family. But they are merely tools God gave us for our Survival. We dont feed ourselves to animals do we?
5. I think that some people are religious because they don't believe that something so complex and intelligent as human life could not be created by chance. There had to be some sort or intelligent being who built them. There are approximately 160 billion planets in our galaxy alone but we have only found 1 with life on it, ours. Now that means that Earth is extremely lucky (or cursed, you decide). That show's that the chance for life was actually extremely small. I don't think that those probabilities suggest any being actively working to populate the universe. And if so, why only chose Earth?1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
God created us (humans) in His image, and we are one of a kind like our planet, specifically made for us. Where do we see another human being from a different planet identical to ours
6. I also think that some people believe because they want to have some kind of purpose. But according to the theory accepted today, life started all because of an accident. I'm more inclined to go with the scientists' opinion due to the fact that it was reached after countless tests and retests. I also don't mind the fact that I have no purpose.I find it disturbing that you'll be fine that you are an accident. God has a plan, and we are all a part of that plan whether you like and accept it or not. having a purpose for something makes more sense that it being accidental. so time, the universe, galaxies, stars, planets were created by accident? oops that exploded?
7. There is way too much suffering going on in this world today. All of these 3rd world countries with people dying of starvation. Wars, disease, natural disasters. Would a god that loves mankind do something to help?A father must allow his child to go through hardships and suffering so that they can learn and be able to strive on their own, but He will always have your back and catch you when you fall. There is alot of Evil in the world and we are here to conquer it and in the end be ultimately be rewarded when we finish through
8. When believing in a religion, all logic that you have been taught since kindergarten has to be tossed out the window. You have to believe in something with absolutely no evidence to back it up, while men in suits with PhD's are going around disproving those beliefs every day. The bible has loads of contradictions and so do the arguments of believers when talking about god.All logic isnt tossed out the window just because you believe in God. When all odds are against the the obvious, you still act on faith that God was the center of the big bang, that evolution is a natural cause in life, that God made you complex and extraordinary. logic isnt thrown away. Whatever we discover, is what God has unveiled to us.
9. All religious texts were written by MEN, and everyone knows that they were written by MEN. The bible has been altered over 200 times, and around its creation, there were several hundred "books" left out. How can this be a legitimate source? How can you say an incomplete, extensively altered book written by men is the absolute word of god?I bet you still write reports for school using wikipedia as one of your source. I dont read the bible a whole lot. These things weren't written in the bible by a bunch of illuminati devil worshipers? They were written by God loving people who knew how to live in the harsh society of their time and the rules of their lands and the wars they've fought. Some of these men were inspired by the teachings of God's one and only Son, Jesus Christ, and were Jesus' apostles who had front row seats to his teachings and followed his ways.
Well.. thats your own choice and based on what you said, the bold is why i feel youre wrong. believe what you wants. But even when the day comes that i see some hard core evidence that i cant even respond to, i will still die a christian.
AND IF I DIE TODAY. IT'D BE A HOLIDAY~
-LilWayne
Edit: @Fusion - one does not simply Go straight to heaven. Think of a court room. you get judged, then you hear your verdict. God is a merciful God, he is understanding of all circumstances
@Raynmental - I dont understand your question sorry :@