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Originally Posted by mickydaniels

But if you feel that your religion is right and true and it is foretold that massive calamity is going to befall your neighbors, and they don't know about it, don't you have a responsibilty to let them know in advance, so that they could at least prepare? Just like with the hurricanes, for example. Let's say you lived in Florida and had a neighbor that never comes outside, and has no TV or radio. Meanwhile one of these hurricanes is coming and will hit your neighborhood. Isn't it your duty to let him know about what's going on, so he could make a decision on what to do? And if something bad happened because of that storm, aren't you going to feel guilty knowing that you could have at least warned him?

It's commonly accepted fact that the hurricane is coming, right? Well, for one, right now, i want to warn you that the unicorns are going to return.

Scoffing, are you? You're defending the same thing. No one man can prove definitively that god exists. He can just prove things wrong on why he can't exist. Prove to me that unicorns aren't coming back, or even that they never existed. Guess what? You can't. What's the use in warning people about a hurricane if you can't prove there's one there?

I don't think so. You know why? Because God can tell you to do something, but you don't necessarily have to do it; you can turn the other way and refuse. He has never operated under the motto of "Do what I say, or else", otherwise, you'd be struck dead the first time you commit a serious sin. And also, you have a foundation on why you do the things you do. If you do good out of love for your fellow man, you're functioning under feelings, and everyone knows feelings are subject to change. God is not.

Sure, God can't tell you what to do. HE'll love you anyways no matter what you do, right? Then what's the point of preaching his goodness? He'll love me no matter what I do, right? So leave me the hell alone.
You're contradicting yourself, saying that I need to be warned of "massive calamity" when it doesn't matter whether it happens or not because I'll be saved anyways.

Figure out the answers to what?

Life's riddles. It's easier for a man to explain the mysteries of the universe in terms of god, but it's a lot more taxing to actually try and solve those mysteries.