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What if you are wrong and God exists? Aren’t you afraid of hell?
Answer: This sort of question is based upon a common theological argument known as Pascal’s Wager: if the believer is wrong and God doesn’t exist, then nothing has been lost; on the other hand, if the atheist is wrong and God does exist, then the atheist risks going to hell. Therefore, it is smarter to take a chance on believing than to take a chance on not believing, and the atheist is in a bad spot.
10 myths about Atheism :
Myth 1 ~ "Atheists are all the same"
Myth 2 ~ "Atheists have no morals, since they don't believe in God"
Myth 3 ~ "Atheists believe in evolution, but that doesn't answer as many questions as creationism"
Myth 5 ~ "Atheists seek to remove religion from society, and to force all people to be atheists"
Myth 4 ~ "Atheists cannot know there is no God, since you cannot prove he doesn't exist" Myth 6 ~ "Atheists are so closed-minded, they can't see that miracles happen every day!".
Myth 7 ~ "Atheists are pushing a negative sentiment, and have a dreary life"
Myth 8 ~ " If atheists are right, then religious people are wasting their time, but at least they're happy.
Myth 9 ~ "There are no such things as atheists" a.k.a. "There are no atheists in foxholes"
Myth 10 ~ "This country was founded by Christians, on Christian values, and should therefore be a Christian country".
I was an atheist in my childhood , but experiences has taught me the presence of god …..i have become a firm believer .. but i dont mean atheists are bad people bcoz i have seen many athiests with good hearts who believe service to man is service to god….they are much better than people who kill in the name of god….
I´m not against atheists. Those myths you have put I have read them in many topics about religion. If it´s their personal choice to not believe, it´s up to them. I have met marvelous atheists here who are respectful and good persons (and even funny)). I believe they are not the source of all evil, because even people who belongs to one religion or another (or at least interpreting it in a wrong meaning) could be as dangerous as a person with no religion.
Maybe we could not understand some of their reasoning because of our religion, but they are as free as us to post their own opinion.
1.- Believing in a literal "Hell" is wrong. Bad or good people who die just stop existing, they dont go to a hell if they are bad. Devil's home is Earth!!! not hell. Thats why you see so many bad things hapenning here everyday.
2.- Albert Einstein was an Atheist, so if you say his mind was frozen, then yours is not even a "frozen mind", but just an ice cube hehehe. Because you would need to die and reborn like 10 times to live 10 lives just to dream of gathering the half of knowledge this guy had ;)
