Would you die for your beliefs?

[fantome profane]

I am talking about whatever it is that is most important to you. Your religion, you lack of religion. Your politics, whatever. If you were threatened with death if you refused to renounce your beliefs, what would you do? Would you die? or would you submit?

 

[LuisDantas]

A lot of that decision would depend on how much of a hope of overcoming that oppression I had, I think.

 

[nazz]

I would HOPE I would. At least some of them.

 

[fantome profane]

A lot of that decision would depend on how much of a hope of overcoming that oppression I had, I think.

And that is part of the question. Historically people have had success in overcoming oppression by being willing to die for their beliefs. Are your beliefs worth the sacrifice? Are your beliefs worth the risk?

 

[Sabour]

Absolutely

 

[outhouse]

Absolutely

No surprise there.

Literalist are almost a given.

 

[Disposable member]

Yes, I pray for the strength and courage to do so, like the 4,500 Saxon martyrs in Verden.

 

[outhouse]

I am talking about whatever it is that is most important to you. Your religion, you lack of religion. Your politics, whatever. If you were threatened with death if you refused to renounce your beliefs, what would you do? Would you die? or would you submit?

Should be a third option, "cannot decide"

I thought about saying I would do some fancy acting, and submit, but Im not the type to submit

I wont die over it.

 

[Levite]

I am talking about whatever it is that is most important to you. Your religion, you lack of religion. Your politics, whatever. If you were threatened with death if you refused to renounce your beliefs, what would you do? Would you die? or would you submit?

I hope I would have the strength to die for my beliefs. If I couldn't, I would submit in word, keeping my beliefs in my heart, and as soon as I could effect escape from my persecutors, I would abjure my false submission and return to my beliefs publicly.

 

[LuisDantas]

If I had reason to believe it could mean something, I suppose I would.

Like the Khudai Khidmatgar, you know.

 

[Sees]

I would and have fight/fought for them, I would die for them while fighting.

 

[Adramelek]

Be it a gun to my head or a knife to my throat, my last words would be "**** you! Hail, Set!"

Xeper.
/Adramelek\

 

[pro4life]

I am talking about whatever it is that is most important to you. Your religion, you lack of religion. Your politics, whatever. If you were threatened with death if you refused to renounce your beliefs, what would you do? Would you die? or would you submit?

It really depends on the individual.

1.For some people, they may consider their belief it is really true and there is no falsifications.
2.Other people that have doubt in their belief but they really consider their belief the best way to go.
3.Some people that have a belief to have no belief and have strong feeling about it.

Number 1 is most likely to die for his beliefs because he or she does not consider anything else is plausible in their own sense.
Number 2 will sway a little and might choose to live otherwise.
Number 3- I don't about this person. The question is why is he fighting for this belief in the first place, this is ornery at its best and doesn't make sense.

 

[bobhikes]

Yes but only one belief is worth dying for my first one which is family.

 

[fantome profane]

It really depends on the individual.

But I am asking you, what would you do?

 

[pro4life]

But I am asking you, what would you do?

If you have doubt in your belief then why would you die for it?

 

[LuisDantas]

It really depends on the individual.

1.For some people, they may consider their belief it is really true and there is no falsifications.
2.Other people that have doubt in their belief but they really consider their belief the best way to go.
3.Some people that have a belief to have no belief and have strong feeling about it.

Number 1 is most likely to die for his beliefs because he or she does not consider anything else is plausible in their own sense.
Number 2 will sway a little and might choose to live otherwise.
Number 3- I don't about this person. The question is why is he fighting for this belief in the first place, this is ornery at its best and doesn't make sense.

Beliefs worth dying for usually are not of the variety that one bets to be "true". They are rather of the variety that is worth making true.

Only a fool would die to show that he believes in, say, gravity or electromagnetism.

 

[pro4life]

Beliefs worth dying for usually are not of the variety that one bets to be "true". They are rather of the variety that is worth making true.

Only a fool would die to show that he believes in, say, gravity or electromagnetism.

So an athiest would be a fool if he died for his belief.

 

[fantome profane]

Beliefs worth dying for usually are not of the variety that one bets to be "true". They are rather of the variety that is worth making true.

Only a fool would die to show that he believes in, say, gravity or electromagnetism.

But if the truth was being suppressed, I might be willing to die to fight the suppression of the truth. People died for the Copernican model of the solar system.

 

[fantome profane]

So an athiest would be a fool if he died for his belief.

I wouldn't die for atheism, but I would die for the idea that people should not be forced to adopt a religious position.