Undecided, that is simply Pascal’s wager. What you forget to ask is what if Christians are wrong and Muslims are right. Aren’t Christians then betting their “soul” too?

It’s not possible to follow all religions simultaneously. Every human plots his own course into the unknown whether Christian, Atheist, Muslim, Hindu, or any other religion or creed.

Agreed. Its our responsibility to ridicule this when others won’t.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

- C.S. Lewis.

I think the point really is that non-believers are the ones with something to lose. If a Christian man is wrong, well then he will suffer no different a fate than that of a non-believer. But if the Christian man is right, it is the Atheists who are in trouble.

Just something to keep in mind…

The reason why no one asks, “What if the Christians are wrong,” is because it is only the Atheists who are betting their lives, souls, eternal existence, or whatever you would like to call it.

Just thought I would play devil’s advocate for a minute.

malcolm said,
Anyway, what really makes me worry is that a grown man is allowed to tell stories like this on a major TV channel in year 2008. And not ridiculed afterwards. That’s depressing.

Agreed. Its our responsibility to ridicule this when others won’t.

Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t his description a bit inconsistent with the ‘die and go to hell’- theory when he says:
‘It was so unbearably hot, far beyond the ability to sustain life. I wonder how [one] can be alive in this heat. [...] and this is how you breathe in hell…’

Perhaps he just fell asleep in sauna?

Anyway, what really makes me worry is that a grown man is allowed to tell stories like this on a major TV channel in year 2008. And not ridiculed afterwards. That’s depressing.

Did you know: Hell has fire. And there are deformed, twisted creatures there.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons it sucks to be disabled or ugly: here we are, in the twenty-first century, still assigning these charactistics as signs of moral failure rather than genes and/or accidents.

And of course this guy is going to sell books. He may outsell The Secret.

Now, not knowing about SP as a kid, I can totally see how that would scare the shit out of someone. I still have SP and night terrors on occassion, and even as a rational adult, they still scare me. I’m also an insomniac, but I digress. This guy doesn’t need a priest, he needs a shrink and some Ambien.

A man supposedly spent 23 minutes in hell. He lived to tell about it.

We all have horror stories about trips to the DMV… He’s damn lucky if he was in and out in 23 minutes.

We definitely need some bleach in the gene pool, because this is the most ludicrous piece of journalism/news/whatever-the-fuck-you-call-it that I’ve ever seen. More and more it seems that Americans have more in common with Muslim fundamentalists (I dreamt of paradise, therefore paradise is real) than with anyone who can even plausibly pretend to be rational.

Sheesh!