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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: Steve O
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:40
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"rbwinn" <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote in message 
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> On Jul 6, 12:17�pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:30fafc0d-9c9c-43e9-90d9-b36a200c34e8@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> >> 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


Hell?
Hell's a doddle.
You could get much worse than that - you could get stabbed.
On the whole, I think I'd prefer hell- a little bit of S and M would 
probably help to pass the time anyway.

-- 
Steve O
a.a. #2240 (Apatheist Chapter)
B.A.A.W.A.
Convicted by Earthquack
Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence



 
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Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
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