January 28, 2007

Your answers to : "If I'm wrong and there is a god, will I go to hell?" are misleading people into some slight belief that there is a god. It really should be: "No, there is no hell, you die, then rot, learn to accept that."

You are misleading people, stop that!

Sorry, but I've got to disagree with you on this one. The answer doesn't give a slight belief that there is a god, it just doesn't come right out and state that there is no god.

I don't know what happens after you die. I don't know that there is no god. Granted I'm rather certain that death is the end and that there is no deity, and if I'm wrong I'll be incredibly shocked and my entire world view will be turned upside down and massive amounts of scientific and intellectual evidence would be tossed out on the garbage heap, but I can't prove that these things don't exist so I don't say I can.

In my opinion, saying that I know for certain that there is no god or hell -- when there is no way to prove such a statement -- makes it much harder to convince theists that atheism is a rational point of view as opposed to just another faith.