What religion are you?

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Originally Posted by Joeiss

Doing something nice is great, but won't get you to heaven. Doing something nice in the name of God is great, and will get you into heaven.

Our actions are meaningless unless we do it for God.

But sometimes some religions in the middle east kill for the name of their god. Yet, they are still wrong and bad.


religion doesnt justify anything. good or bad.

So your telling me, if i give $10 billion to a childrens school i wont go to heaven, because its not in the name of God?

If I save a busload of childrens lives, I wont go to heaven because i didnt do it for God?

Originally Posted by TheGame

The way I see it, man in general is "bad" we all sin

What exactly did Mother Theresa do? The woman was a saint. Like, literally. Oh wait...riiight, origional sin. The thing that backs up the "fact" everyone will go to hell and so on and so forth.

I think religion ws made by some king, or ruler of the days of old, like a scare tactic to follow the laws of that particular man. Think about it. Who would oppose his opinion? He would have you beheaded.

King : "Follow my laws or go to hell!!"
Villagers: "Hell? whats hell?"
King: "A place of fire and eternal torment."
Villagers : " Wait, how do you know?"
King: "God told me."
Villagers: "You didnt talk to god."
King: "Guards, behead him!!"

See, its that simple.

I think it was a scare tactic to get people to do what you wanted with grave concequences if they didnt listen.

Can anyone prove the existance of Heaven or Hell? no.
Can anyone prove the existance of God? No.
Yet people are so ready to defend something that has not been proven to exist. Like ghosts. Or vampires. Or zombies.

And everyone just says "Oh, God exists, because it says so in the bible!!"
Well, i read a book once where it says dragons ae real. Are they? No. Does anyone defend to their grave that they are? No, not really.

Because if someone comes at you with a knife shouting : "Ill kill you if you say dragons are real!!" you will say they dont exist, because Dragons show no promise in afterlife.

Yet, if the same man runs up and yells : "Ill kill you if you say God is real!!!!" if you were religious, you would say he is, because you believe in an afterlfe of warmth and love.

I think religion is juist so people can feel meanigful. So they feel like they know something. And the idea that we go to Heaven after we die (assuming you are good) makes it so people dont freak out when they are terminally ill.

And the threat of Hell is supposed to differ you from doing bad things.

But where in the bible does it say something about people who are good AND bad? Where do they go?

Rough examples:

If you save a busload of children, you go to heaven.
If you kill a man, you go to hell.
But what if you save a busload of children while killing a man? Where do you go? What happens?

And another thing, why dont the Jews have hell? Dont you pray to he same god as Christians/Catholics etc.?