If you are going to pretend you know what I believe then state it right. For the record: I never said I believe in nothing. And I never said I hope "for a dirt nap."
I do not believe in nothing. I believe nothing. Either I know or I don't know.
Your being lost, on the other hand, is a sentient eternal lostness that matters
Maybe to superstitious minds.
Same old binary choices they impose, when the real world cannot always accommodate them.
On another thread about a certain Alabama governor mentioning in his inaugural speech that only those who share his particular faith are his "brothers and sisters," or something to that effect, many commentators agreed with the person and echoed the same sentiment. So I asked them, what is a dead child, the children who haven't heard of the gospels or anything like that that could have forced them to decide, what are they to do? Where do they go after death?
One of them replies back saying that the "whoever shall believe..." part also mentions the word, 'family' and hence they are covered. So I asked again, what are orphans to do, if they die before they hear of the bipolar choice that's available to them. Guess what the reply was? That he or she is doomed.
I wonder if these people who believe in such choices have ever heard of such a case as a parasitic twin. It is, basically, the remains of an incomplete foetus attached to a fully developed one. It is rather disturbing to witness.
Sometimes, the parasitic twin develops with most appendages and organs, and is alive. Other times, only the limbs form, or only the torso, or sometimes only the head, with functional brains and eyes. But most times, it's only a set of arms, a hip and a set of legs, if even those. So the question to these paragons of moral self-righteousness is as follows: What means do they have to achieve "salvation"? Surely they must be covered, shouldn't they?
While they are at it, I also wanted to ask this question about why a deity would need to use prophets and other special people. What good does it do, if a man's faith in a deity can only come after he has faith in the words of his fellow men? There is no way anyone can believe in a deity unless he or she has heard of it from another human (with the exception of direct divine intervention, perhaps). So, why is this flaw in the design of "salvation" present, that faith in God can only come after faith in mere men? It would have been so much simpler for a deity to merely telepathically communicate with all humanity the way it supposedly did with certain "prophets" and such a mode wouldn't have lead humanity to rely on other humans and scraps of ancient writings, for its "salvation".
They can take as much time as they want, but I do not expect an answer for any of the above, because they don't really have any.
