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From: jgaylord1@dslextreme.com
On 3/18/2018 4:21 PM, % wrote:
> On 2018-03-18 3:53 PM, joy wrote:
>> On 3/18/2018 3:14 PM, Checkmate wrote:
>>> Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by
>>> Checkmate! In article ,
>>> greghall@yacht_maester.fake says...
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:08:44 -0700, joy
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <...>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That is probably true. However, I was referring to atheists who
>>>>> have to
>>>>> keep forcing their atheism on people who disagree with them.
>>>>>
>>>>> One evening I was with a group of people and one man was going on and
>>>>> on, in a belligerent tone, about how there is no life after death. He
>>>>> just wouldn't shut up, no matter what anybody said.
>>>>>
>>>>> I finally said, "Well, I believe there is life after death, which
>>>>> makes
>>>>> me better off than you are."
>>>>>
>>>>> He stormed over, leaned practically in my face and said, "Why?!"
>>>>>
>>>>> I said, "Because if I'm wrong, I'll never know it, but if you're
>>>>> wrong,
>>>>> you could be in for one hell of a surprise."
>>>>
>>>> So, true. It's elementary logic. Doesn't make one bit
>>>> of sense to be an atheist. There's nothing to gain and
>>>> EVERYTHING to lose.
>>>
>>>
>>> You can't force yourself to believe something, just because there's a
>>> minute possibility that to do so would be beneficial.
>>>
>>
>> That is true, and that is why I don't believe that people who don't
>> believe whatever are condemned to hell. I think that if people are
>> judged it will be based on the way they treat each other and this world,
>> not on what they believe.
>
>
> is there a usenet in heaven
LOL!
When I was young, I went to a school that was run by a church. I was
taught that in heaven we each have our own mansion. In that mansion is
a closet with a shelf. On the shelf is a crown, with a jewel in it for
every soul that we saved. I used to think about living alone in a huge,
empty house, with nothing in it but a crown. That didn't sound very
nice to me. Then I read the scripture, "and I saw a new heaven and a
new earth". I think that's in Revelation. I decided that if I had a
choice, I'd pick the new earth. Really, without all the bad things,
earth would be heaven as far as I'm concerned.
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