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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:55
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On Jul 6, 12:17�pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> news:30fafc0d-9c9c-43e9-90d9-b36a200c34e8@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
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> >> Right. So we are all going to hell willy nilly. Why bother with trying
> >> not to?.
>
> > You will not like hell. �That is what seems odd about atheists. �They
> > can seem like rational beings except in one instance. �If you were to
> > give them a choice between going to Yellowstone national Park or going
> > to the Winslow, Arizona, city dump, most of them would choose to go to
> > Yellowstone Park. �But if you give them a choice between heaven and
> > hell, they all say they do not want to go to heaven. �Some of them
> > might object to going to hell, but they all choose to not go to
> > heaven.
> > Robert B. Winn
>
> You're wrong.
> No matter how pleasant heaven or Yellowstone Park is, spending the rest of
> ETERNITY in either place, or anywhere else for that matter, would be the
> worst form of punishment and torture.
> You guys always bang on about looking forward to eternity without actually
> thinking about what that involves.
> It's ETERNITY for Christ's sake!
> Mind numbing, endless, inescapable eternity- without even having the relief
> of suicide to end it all.
> I couldn't think of any worse torture than spending the rest of eternity in
> one single place.
>
> --
> Steve O

Suicide does not solve anything.  The person will still have all of
the problems they had before with the added problem that they have
committed suicide.  So following what you say, what if people in
heaven get to move around, and people in hell cannot.  Which place do
you want to go?
Robert B. Winn
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Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
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