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   From: erratic@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Bod presented the following explanation :   
   > On 04/01/2017 18:08, FromTheRafters wrote:   
   >> After serious thinking burfordTjustice wrote :   
   >>> On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:56:27 -0000   
   >>> "James Wilkinson Sword"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I don't believe at all, I'm an atheist.   
   >>>   
   >>> Those who believe in God and living accordingly, when they die   
   >>> if they were wrong nothing lost.   
   >>>   
   >>> Those who do not believe and preach hated against those that do (like   
   >>> you ), when you die if you were wrong that could be a big issue...   
   >>   
   >> And here I was thinking that God would be forgiving. Somebody told me   
   >> that once, are you saying it isn't true?   
   >  >   
   >  > The Bible is full of contradictions. It's well known that the Bible   
   > mentions that god decides whether you will go to hell or heaven.   
   > One assumes that god hands over the body/soul to Satan.....nice.   
   >   
   > It depends what believers cherry pick.   
   > A loving god...my foot!!   
      
   Sounds like a vengeful God to me. That changes Pascal's Wager to   
   something with a greater chance of having a less desireable outcome   
   even if I choose, now, to believe.   
      
   If He wanted me to believe, couldn't He just prove his existence to me   
   and stop playing silly games with my destiny? A simple burning bush   
   will do, nothing too fancy and he supposedly has done that one before.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)