Is religious belief cowardly?

[Aldebaran]

Not necessarily. What if you've sinned, and are worried about going to hell?

Actually, if someone who believes in God is worried about that then he has not much of a clue about God, or maybe follows a religion that explains and pictures God very badly.

salaam.

 

[Stigmata]

Luther was also an uber jew-hater.

http://www.nobeliefs.com/luther.htm

No doubt, but that's a little beside the point. He wasn't keen on papists either.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Actually, if someone who believes in God is worried about that then he has not much of a clue about God, or maybe follows a religion that explains and pictures God very badly.

salaam.

So, nobody's going to hell?

 

[Aldebaran]

So, nobody's going to hell?

I don't know, I'm not God, but those who believe in God *should* realise that God forgives someone who asks to be forgiven.

salaam.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I don't know, I'm not God, but those who believe in God *should* realise that God forgives someone who asks to be forgiven.

salaam.

So theoretically at least, sinners have nothing to worry about, so long as they're truly penitent at the end?

That sort of destroys the whole preventative effect.

 

[frogwoman]

No they dont.

What goes around comes around. If you are a cunt to someone then the chances are they will be a cunt back.

Repentance doesn't mean that you just say sorry to G-d and that's it. It means that you change the way you behave so that you don't do such actions again. and you truly feel sorry for what you did and never want to do it any more, you don't just think it's all right to repent and then do the same thing again.

What i dont like about christianity is that someone can repent on their deathbed and just get a place in heaven, we don't know what's going to happen after we die, and so by the time you die it's a bit late, it's better not to do it anyway or if you do to try and repair the damage you did well before you get to the stage of dying.

 

[ChrisC]

Everything that is learned dies with the brain. For evidence of this, look at what can happen while we are still alive - brain damage, Alzheimer's, lobotomies etc. Are you suggesting that a sufferer of Alzheimer's disease, whose personality has disintegrated and memory disappeared, miraculously recovers these things when their brain stops working altogether?

For all we know, mind is carrying on somewhere else when someone suffers with these things. Maybe in another plane or dimension of consciousness.