Sexual Abuse and the Reduction in the Belief in God (page 5)

caliber

Death seems like permanent harm to me.

Have you ever heard the term "resurrection ???"

Lady Lee

Yea but we KNOW we are going to die. We don't KNOW what happens next

caliber

How valuable to me then is faith and hope !!

Resurrection is a whole different topic Caliber. Because even if I were to concede that some sort of God does exist, why would that lead me to automatically assume that people were resurrected to some sort of afterlife after they die? The two don't necessarily follow other than in human tradition, which you might have noticed, I don't put a heck of a lot of stock in.

cognizant dissident

If I wait for all my questions about God to be answered... when then would I start to serve him ?

When they are answered to your satisfaction. A better question would be: why would you start to serve him before they are answered?

caliber

When they are answered to your satisfaction
That is a wonderful answer thanks... so each gets to decide
Would you mine though , if I decide for myself which questions I might first ??

cognizant dissident

That is a wonderful answer thanks... so each gets to decide

Terrifying concept, isn't it.

Funny enough, when I told my father the PO I wasn't a JW anymore, that was the thing that upset him the most, I think. After all our arguments, he kept harping back to that one in the end. "So you think you are a free moral agent now, do you? You think you can decide for yourself what is right and wrong?" The thought of that made him visibly angry, for some reason.

Of course, what he failed to realize is that men have been deciding for themselves since time began and attributing it to God. They have also been deciding for women. I understand changes in the status quo are upsetting to some.

VampireDCLXV

I'd rather take Pascal's Wager than think of the alternative...

V665

cognizant dissident

Vamp: (I hope you don't mind if I call you vamp . It's kind of my pet name for you now.)

Do you mean it is safer to hedge your bets and believe in God, just in case he happens to exist?

Sexual Abuse and the Reduction in the Belief in God

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