Thursday, September 21, 2000

On The Subject Of Atheists And Hell

I do not quite understand why atheists are so offended when religious types start doing the fortune teller number.  They say atheists are going to hell.

…But atheists believe that neither heaven nor hell exist.  They do not believe in God, correct?  As a matter of fact, they do not believe in any deity, whether culled from paganism, monotheism, ancestorism.  By the transitive property, a belief in deity necessitates belief in afterlife of some sort, for the immortal soul to reside.  By extension of this is an existence in either heaven or hell.  Souls are sorted into either eternal paradise or eternal damnation.

-But again, atheists do not believe in a deity, and it logically follows that they do not believe in divine judgment.  So by the process of elimination, atheists do not believe in heaven or hell, either.
-So these are essentially empty threats.  Therefore there is nothing to worry about.  So there is no need for atheists to feel so offended by this.

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