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Originally Posted by VoiceOfNoOne
Actually I really couldn't care less about going to heaven to be honest. My agnosticism has nothing to do with wanting to get into heaven and if you think your post pissed me off because it scared me, then I don't think you read it because if you had you would know that it pissed me off because you called my belief system weak.
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If that was the case, why mention this:
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And I'm realy sorry about this but have you ever died? cause if not I really don't think you can say whether people are going to Heaven or not can you?
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You must have had some reason for saying that.
And I still think agnosticism is weak. It implies that there is a roughly equal chance that god exists versus god not existing. Why don't we apply this same convenient "benefit of doubt" to other ideas that have little to no evidence? Like fairies. Are you an agnostic with respect to fairies? Probably not. I'm willing to bet you're willing to bet fairies don't exist. Not because god is any more likely to exist than fairies, but because fairies don't send you to hell.
Somewhere inside, the fear of hell affects you. And I don't blame you. But I am trying to not allow scare tactics to deter my rational thought.
If there does in fact exist a god, I am becoming more and more convinced it is not the Christian god, or a god of any specific religion, but a universal divine presence. If that is the case, Christian notions, like hell, don't apply anyway.