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What would you say to the Almight?

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One normal day, Armageddon arrives, and amidst the fireballs and atomic blasts you realise that you don't believe in God.

As an atheist/agnostic, you find yourself standing before God. Apparently, his efforts to appear non-existant had you fooled, and unless you can tell him why not, he is going to send you to Hell.

What would you say to God, if he allowed you a few minutes to sway him?

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Openmind wrote:What would you say to God, if he allowed you a few minutes to sway him?
"If you wanted us to worship you, why didn't make it obvious you're real and need worship instead of hiding behind vague predictions, sending your son to die painfully on a cross (and only letting a small percentage of people living then see that), instead of giving us real evidence of your existence? And now you're punishing us because you were too shy and/or lazy to show yourself? That's kinda childish, isn't it? Also, if you made us a self-portrait of yourself and gave us a brain to think with, don't you feel a bit embarrassed you didn't make our brain big enough to KNOW you're real instead of forcing us to just plain believe blindly?"

I need to take a deep breath.

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I'd ask him why He deliberately made Himself logically impossible to make all morally good and productive, beneficial members of humanity not believe in Him.

I lol'd at HDL's "dialetic" as well.

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I'd have a few questions:

1. which god are you?

2. why so little evidence for your existence?

3. why is blind-belief better than physical evidence and reasoned logic?

4. why did you create a universe with none of the hallmarks of a created one?

5. why did you create nasal hair? It's just not pretty

Then be on my merry way.
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[quote="Openmind"]One normal day, Armageddon arrives, and amidst the fireballs and atomic blasts you realise that you don't believe in God. quote]

I would have realized it already, but if he arrives as you describe above, I'd probably say "Holy Sh#%, you ARE real."

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Openmind wrote:One normal day, Armageddon arrives, and amidst the fireballs and atomic blasts you realise that you don't believe in God.

As an atheist/agnostic, you find yourself standing before God. Apparently, his efforts to appear non-existant had you fooled, and unless you can tell him why not, he is going to send you to Hell.

What would you say to God, if he allowed you a few minutes to sway him?
Dude, marshmallow fluff. What were you thinking?

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McCulloch wrote:
CONVERTED TO ISLAM wrote:I am just giving you the message of islam . If you want to believe or you are free
I have removed CONVERTED TO ISLAM from the atheist group. You cannot be atheist and muslim at the same time. Converted, please try to abide by the rules and stop being so dishonest.
While I see no problem with Jews that are atheists it usually doesn't come about because of conversion. I see no reason why there shouldn't be atheist Christians or Muslims as long as they didn't convert.
Agnostics are a different matter as not knowing you could be ignorant in any religion.

Back to God, I would first try to get those in line first to ask the question first then I might say anything he or She wants me to say and being God and all that it seems they would just know what to say before I even asked.

My look I would be awe stuck and after it was over wonder why I didn't ask more questions. Maybe God is counting on that just to keep the line moving along.

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I would not attempt to sway this vile entity. I would simply spit in his vain, egocentric, narcissistic, schizophrenic, sociopathic eye and make my merry way to Gehenna.
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Openmind wrote:One normal day, Armageddon arrives, and amidst the fireballs and atomic blasts you realise that you don't believe in God.

As an atheist/agnostic, you find yourself standing before God. Apparently, his efforts to appear non-existant had you fooled, and unless you can tell him why not, he is going to send you to Hell.

What would you say to God, if he allowed you a few minutes to sway him?
If He's a vengeful deity it's quite banal to try to convince Him of anything, or else He'd be a foolish deity (something extremely unlikely).

But I would ask,

"What is the ultimate reason of your existence?
Why is your nature the way it is?
Do you have any objective way of determining you're not another creation?"

But surely that's projecting my own mortal-thinking into his divinity. I would still be interested in the answers, though.

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I'd simply ask it if it thought sending me, a generally good person, to hell for my reasoning and logic is truely good.

If it says no I would then be allowed to enter.

If it says yes I wouldn't want to enter.

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