The truth is – the so called religion has been directing people into wrong path, and instructing people to do wrong things in the name of religion. The heart of a religious people is filled with hatred for others who are not of his/her own kind. These people read mostly the so called religious texts, and spend most of their time thinking about some imaginary world. As a result, they remain mostly ignorant. They invest most of this life just preparing for the imaginary world of afterlife. In that process, they waste this life, accomplishing nothing. So, these are the most unaccomplished people, and they are the greatest losers of this world.
But, those who are irreligious, they try to do the right things. They lead a life, filled with enjoyment, joy, love and compassion for all creations, and do necessary things to accomplish something in this world.
We all have special traits that no one else has, and no one should waste it; every life on this earth has a purpose, and no one has the right to waste it, as religious people always do, which is a cardinal sin, I believe.
It reminds me a story, I heard, during the hurricane Katrina (2005) in Louisiana. While most of New Orleans was being submerged under water during that storm, rescuers were going door to door to pick people up to bring them to the shelters. A church was going under water; water was rising in the church, and the Priest was deeply engaged in prayer to God.
Rescuers knocked at the Church door, but the priest did not come to the door; he believed God will save him somehow. After all, he has invested his whole life in God's works, so, God must save his life to continue His works.
Rescuers came back twice again, and knocked on the door repeatedly just to make sure no one is inside the church. The whole church slowly went under water.
When the priest finally met the God in the afterlife, he inquired about why God did not come forward to save his life. God said – "I sent rescuers 3 times to the church to pick you up, but you did not want to be rescued."
I think - religious people will get the same answer from the God for wasting this God-given life.
On the contrary, irreligious people will get something unexpected, since they have done everything right in their life, except praying 4-5 times per day. Tell me why God should punish them.
Jiten Roy
From: "Saikot Hossain saikotbd@gmail.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:27 AM
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Does hell exits?????
Many times when I discuss religion with the religious, some form of Pascal's Wager tends to come up. Frequently, the religious person will ask me where I think I will end up after I die. The implication of the question is typically that I will go to Hell to be tortured for all eternity. The religious person will then inform me that if I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior, I will not be tortured for all eternity. To me, this sounds like a terroristic threat.
When I call attention to the threatening nature of the religious person's insinuation that I will be tortured for all eternity (which is a surprisingly long time) if I don't worship their deity, the believer backs off a little bit by shifting the blame on to their deity. They often insist that they aren't threatening me, God is. They are just passively informing me about an eminent threat. But it really isn't that simple. They aren't just passively informing me about a necessary consequence to my action or in this case inaction, they are making a value judgment about that consequence.
The believer isn't just warning me about Hell, they are making a claim that I deserve to be tortured for all eternity in Hell if I don't worship their deity. It is this value judgment that I find so disturbing. To the believer, God can do no wrong and as a result the nature of the system which believers refer to as "God's Justice" is not just some random cause and effect scenario, but rather they see it as the best and most perfect system. You would be hard pressed to find a Christian who is willing to stand up to their deity and denounce God's divine justice as barbaric and immoral.
By contrast, any warning I give about the consequence of an on coming storm would be devoid of value judgments. If I were to warn someone about in imminent storm, it would be immoral to root for the storm and yet this is precisely what believers do when it comes to the eternal torture of Hell.
A closter analogy would be a bank robber who puts a gun to the head of the teller while his accomplice "warns" that if the teller refuses to hand over all the money the teller would get shot in the face. The accomplice insists that it isn't a threat; it is just a natural consequence of the bank teller's inaction. While this analogy is extremely violent, it isn't nearly as violent as the religious assertion that non-believers will be and ought to be tortured for all eternity in Hell.
Fortunately, Hell is imaginary!
Regards,
Md. Hossain
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Posted by: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
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