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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9:12, do you believe he would punish in the afterlife those who don't achieve fellowship with him on earth?

Muslima, if I could know there was a god and that his purpose in creating us was to have someone to worship him, I couldnt worship such a god. [/quote]

not 9:12. There is a lot of obsession with what happens in the after life, punishment, damnation, etc. from the atheist crowd. Are you really trying to understand?[/quote]

9:12 here, and +1 to this comment. THE AFTERLIFE does seem to be the great atheist loophole. But to answer the question, "do I believe he would punish in the afterlife those who don't achieve fellowship with him on earth," go ahead and point to my nit-picking again, but I'm going to challenge your choice of words. I would not use the word "punish." If my child touches a hot stove after I have repeatedly told him, over and over again, to stay away from it... and lo and behold he burns his finger... is that a "punishment?" Am I inflicting it?[/quote]

OP again, the analogy for me would be not that mom tells you not to touch but that some group of other people over time write documents that purport to give accurate stove advice. Would God really set up the universe to hurt th child if the child was skeptical of the people making claims?

That's part of my point. Given that a rational and loving person who tries to do good can easily not believe in God given what little we have, I just don't see God punishing those people. Is he also going to punish all the people who get the details wrong? [/quote]

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