Why Should Atheists and Polytheists complain in hell?

[Kirran]

Interestingly, a believer in a faith such as traditional Islam or Christianity need not have any morals at all, or have inverse morals to those espoused by their form of the respective faith. Just gotta do what they're told.

They might see homosexuality as perfectly acceptable on a personal moral level, but go out and campaign against them having rights because they think they'll go to hell otherwise.

 

[izzy4games12]

You know, I never understood why people see that as an issue at all.

Death is just death, and there is in essence no reason whatsover to expect otherwise, let alone to care whether anyone holds "wrong beliefs" on the matter.

And having a bad afterlife for not believing in the right god and/or scripture... really? That looks more like some form of satire than an actual belief.

Is it not self-evident that even if we take for granted that there is such a judgment, it is just too petty to deserve anyone's attention?

The more people that realize that death isn't just death, only a physical one, the more people might actually put in an effort to save themselves. Death is inevitable therefore calling it petty would just be...well, dumb. If it was avoidable then call it what you want, but you can't say that you aren't the least concerned with what happens afterwards.

If people could see a glimpse of hell then maybe that'll get them on the right track, but not everyone gets to see that, so it's up to motivated Christ followers to try and help people avoid that.

 

[LuisDantas]

The more people that realize that death isn't just death, only a physical one, the more people might actually put in an effort to save themselves.

Do you think so?

Why would, or should, that matter at all even assuming that it is true?

Death is inevitable therefore calling it petty would just be...well, dumb.

Death isn't petty.

It is the idea that one should find the idea of a judgement for an afterlife Very Important that I find petty.

If it was avoidable then call it what you want, but you can't say that you aren't the least concerned with what happens afterwards.

Oh, but I very much can say that, and I do.

As should everyone really. It is just not something to be noticeworthy.

If people could see a glimpse of hell then maybe that'll get them on the right track, but not everyone gets to see that, so it's up to motivated Christ followers to try and help people avoid that.

That is just a weird thing to say, sorry.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

but you can't say that you aren't the least concerned with what happens afterwards.

If anything happens, I'll address it when I get to it. I can say, however, that I have no concerns about some god sending to me to eternal damnation because I realized the very limited view I have of the totality of reality, and that this god didn't make a strong enough case to make me believe in specifically that god.

 

[LuisDantas]

If anything happens, I'll address it when I get to it. I can say, however, that I have no concerns about some god sending to me to eternal damnation because I realized the very limited view I have of the totality of reality, and that this god didn't make a strong enough case to make me believe in specifically that god.

Same here. If anything, I would think that a god that has such strange criteria would owe me an apology at the very least.

 

[viole]

Even that will not be nearly enough. One also has to convince himself that there is an immoral judgment for one's ternal afterlife; that god is both easily fooled and utterly immoral and insane; and that morality is essentially meaningless, just a form of work under gunpoint.

Anyone who proposes it except in jest lacks basic respect for theism.

On top of it, it is self defeating. It is easy to postulate a God that sends believers to Hell and unbelievers to Heaven. The evidence we have about the character of God puts my God on equal footing with their God.

That God is not like that would just beg the question.

Ciao

- viole

 

[leibowde84]

I mean why should polytheists and atheists complain when they disbelieved in the God who created the hell

Why would that matter? They are still in hell, and they would necessarily "believe in hell" once they get there. So, they would have just as much reason to complain as anyone else. Once they witness or see evidence of God/hell, they will, most likely, no longer be atheists, right?

 

[leibowde84]

Let say the christian side is true, resulting in the burning of non-christians. I wouldnt complain because i made the choice to disbelieve in trinity.

So i would expect the same behavior from atheists and polytheists. God sents messengers to give gladtidings and warnings. So i believe atheists and polytheists have no real excuse.

Why wouldn't you complain? Wouldn't you feel at all like God didn't do a good enough job of convincing you of the truth of the trinity? Further, wouldn't you complain that punishment is not deserved for a mere lack of belief? I mean, we should be judged on our actions, not our thoughts.