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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: Going to Heaven
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:53:47 GMT
- References: <76790001@teecs.UUCP> <bdEA02P72aSV01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <ksand-121192182635@wintermute.apple.com> <11516@hogg.ed.ac.uk> <ksand-151192201606@wintermute.apple.com> <11555@scott.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <11555@scott.ed.ac.uk>, iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- wrote:
- > I'll skip the obvious response about the meaning of "believing in
- > atheism" and move to the real point: Just as being an atheist is
- > incompatible with having following a religion, many religions are
- > incompatible with one another. Therefore you don't necessarily
- > maximise your chances by following several of them simultaneously.
- > Maybe each of the gods you worship will damn you for _also_ having
- > worshipped the other one(s), and you'll end up in hell.
-
- I guess that would be a problem, however if you look at the maximizing
- issue the possible God has to agree that if the individual followed
- his/her doctrines 100%, there has to be a really good reason why
- this person is not allowed to enter this 'heaven'. What if we
- are dealing with a person with multiple personalities? :-).
-
- > >However in this case it's futile, because correct me if I'm wrong but
- > >atheism does not believe in an afterlife and heaven.
- >
- > Atheism doesn't believe in anything, and specifically is not very well
- > compatible with belief in afterlife and heaven. But as a mental
- > exercise it is interesting to imagine a deity which favours those and
- > only those who don't believe in it, or in any other deities.
-
- It would be a very cruel joke indeed to have a God that only accepts
- people that don't believe in him. Would be a good Philip K. Dick
- story line.
-
- Kent
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