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purplebubblegum
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I've been a theist for my whole life, but for the past few years, I've encountered quite a lot of atheists and even some anti-theists. Almost all of them are perfectly logical people, save for a few, say.. Irrational ones, so I'm starting to wonder, "should I claim myself a logical person, shouldn't I view the world in the same perspective as they do? Shouldn't my stance be completely wrong my whole life? However, I have 3 points that still linger in my mind every time I think of becoming an atheist:
1. How do you people explain the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life? I'm perfectly aware that this question has been the major discussion in theist and atheist debates, but I've never found a really satisfying answer. Spare me the scientific reasoning, I'm just wondering how you're perceiving something so huge to just pop out of literally nowhere, without something, not necessarily an entity, starting it?
2. Can you people really accept that those sinful evil people, like Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, so on so forth, die so 'easily', without any further consequences whatsoever? Can you accept they just decease like that, with no justification for what they've done in the afterlife you don't believe? The same applies to the good people.
If so, then what's the purpose of doing good, really? Why don't we just all then rob all the banks, kill all the people you don't like, have an intercourse with anyone you please, because in the end, it doesn't even matter? No matter whether you were a good person or a bad person in your life, you'll just be treated the same, in the end?
3. Should you be 'right' about the world, then the theists will really have nothing to lose, for the aforementioned reasons. The theists would only have lost a few good years worshipping gods in total, an again, it wouldn't have mattered in the end. But should the theists be right, then what do you atheists expect to do? You are all familiar with the concept of hell, and that's literally the last place you want to be in. Can you really live on your life with that possibility existing?
Just for disclaimer, I never meant to offend anyone in this topic, nor am I trying to missionary of some sort. I just want to set things right and clear my mind out of this, because a belief is one's sole guide in their life, and I don't want to live the rest of my life clinging on the wrong one.
1. How do you people explain the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life? I'm perfectly aware that this question has been the major discussion in theist and atheist debates, but I've never found a really satisfying answer. Spare me the scientific reasoning, I'm just wondering how you're perceiving something so huge to just pop out of literally nowhere, without something, not necessarily an entity, starting it?
2. Can you people really accept that those sinful evil people, like Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, so on so forth, die so 'easily', without any further consequences whatsoever? Can you accept they just decease like that, with no justification for what they've done in the afterlife you don't believe? The same applies to the good people.
If so, then what's the purpose of doing good, really? Why don't we just all then rob all the banks, kill all the people you don't like, have an intercourse with anyone you please, because in the end, it doesn't even matter? No matter whether you were a good person or a bad person in your life, you'll just be treated the same, in the end?
3. Should you be 'right' about the world, then the theists will really have nothing to lose, for the aforementioned reasons. The theists would only have lost a few good years worshipping gods in total, an again, it wouldn't have mattered in the end. But should the theists be right, then what do you atheists expect to do? You are all familiar with the concept of hell, and that's literally the last place you want to be in. Can you really live on your life with that possibility existing?
Just for disclaimer, I never meant to offend anyone in this topic, nor am I trying to missionary of some sort. I just want to set things right and clear my mind out of this, because a belief is one's sole guide in their life, and I don't want to live the rest of my life clinging on the wrong one.