religious people- If you found out that your religion wasn't...

worst case scenario

Yes, ultimately God's the judge. As a christian, I believe that if you choose not to accept that Jesus died for your sins then you choose to be apart from God as your sin separates you. So when you die, you can't spend eternity with God in heaven, you go to where there is no God, commonly known as Hell. It's sad but your choice I guess

Yes, ultimately God's the judge. As a christian, I believe that if you choose not to accept that Jesus died for your sins then you choose to be apart from God as your sin separates you. So when you die, you can't spend eternity with God in heaven, you go to where there is no God, commonly known as Hell. It's sad but your choice I guess

wow, such a negative view on life. So you're only worshipping God to go to your final destination and you're scared that you'd go to hell if you don't?

This is true.


You lose consciousness when you die, so you will never get to find out that your religion was just a fairytale.

I used to study Physics at AS level. It was a subject I was not really good in, but I did it any way because I felt it was an important subject which would help me get into the university course I wanted (chemical engineering).

I didn't do well in Physics, in the end. However, I can be comforted in the fact that I did learn some new things which I found interesting, and that at least I tried doing well. It's far better than not having studied the subject or not putting any effort in doing well at all.

I'm a christian and if I died and it turned out there wasn't a God, either:
a) I'd be dead and so wouldn't realize
b) I'd still feel I'd spent a happy and fulfilled life doing my best to love and care for others and have fun.

It'd be no loss honestly!

I don't think most people care about the "correct" one. I mean a religious person will worship God in their life and if they get to heaven and they are different from expected who cares? Oh no, God is slightly different. They will still be pretty much the same-the creator of the universe and so on.

If you get to the afterlife most people will simply say "great, I have eternal life here now" not "oh no, I worshiped the Christian God but this is actually Allah, with no Trinity. Best go back to rot in the ground".

If there is no God all of us will be nothing for eternity, an unspeakably long time, so none of us have anything to celebrate. You can laugh at someone for devoting a small amount of time to a man made god, but ultimately we will all be nothing but dust for eternity. Thus there is nothing to be smug about-you may have got the right call about their being a God or not but you hardly have won anything or are better off because of it.



If there is no God you won't be feeling anything at all. Obviously.

What a ridiculous post. Most people don't care whether they worship the correct God? Is that why countless wars have been waged simply become other people worshipped the wrong God? Is that why you still have people continuously arguing that their God is the only true one?

Not to mention that a lot of religious texts proclaim that if you have the misfortune of choosing the wrong God then you will spend eternity in hell.
So yes I would think that "most" people should care.

But yes actually we can be smug. If there were no God then we have saved countless hours not praying or giving up the things we love simply because a mythical man told us to. How many people have dedicated their lives to God? How many people have died for God?

I think you're a very naive and misinformed person tbh.

Thats great but how about if your degree lasted your entire lifetime and all the opportunity cost of pursuing it?

There is no polite way of telling a man they dedicated their life to a folly and i think that if a person realised that at the end or in some afterlife, they would be crushed beyond recognition

A little bit like when a married couple of many years and one dies, then the other finds out that their partner had an affair on them which they never found out about. Joker voice "Youve changggedd things, FORUVVER"

Well unless you're in hell for worshiping a false god

Yes! That was the point I was trying to get across. Muslims are told to pray 5 times a day which would have summed up to about at least a couple of years gone to waste throughout their lifetime..

And If they found out that God isn't real then...

I can't study all the degrees in the world, and I'm quite sure a potential employer, if he sees my extensive CV with all these degrees, will say: "well from all of this I think you're undecided on what you want, and so I'm unfortunately going to decline your application because you're not the candidate which we want."

So what I do need to do is to make an informed, rational decision weighing in all the possible information I can gather, to decide which degree to study - and to excel in this degree. So that when I do apply for a job, I will be doing so having the utmost confidence in my application being successful, given all my preparations.

Im not sure you understand what i mean. If you chased the Physics degree all your life which you didnt enjoy until your old age sacrificing much better opportunities and quality of life elsewhere in your misguided belief that it was the right one only to find it was all a lie / no truth at the end. You would be pretty gutted. Sure you could take some silver linings from the experience but objectively you sacrificed your life for nothing

Comparing the wrong decision of living your life according to a god that ultimately turns out is not real is not the same as making a good decision with the information available at the time (Physics degree) that doesnt turn out well after 2 or 3 years.

Who said that my degree was in Physics?