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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you've only done good deeds to benefit yourself, aren't your good deeds all for naught whether you are worshipping the right God or not? Won't the God you believe in know that you've been faking it?
Doing good things to help other actual living humans for their benefit, as opposed to just doing them to ensure a reservation in paradise for yourself, is not a waste of time.
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You're absolutely right that if I do good deeds to only benefit myself, my God will know I'm faking it.
But if there's no god, why should I bother wasting my time doing good deeds at all when I could be raking in the cash and getting intoxicated and having much sex? I mean really, which is the more preferred lifestyle? Sweaty sex with hot men, or toiling under the sun building houses for the homeless?
The question isn't about the deeds at all. The point is that someone is WRONG. Whether that's the Christians or Catholics or Muslims or Athiests, someone is WRONG and they are toiling towards their eternity or lack thereof by doing the wrong thing. IF there really is no God, I would rather be having a lot of sex and such. Because I believe in God, I don't. However, if it turns out that there isn't a God at all, I've just wasted a lot of good 'having sex years' for naught.
As an example which has nothing to do with the amount of sex I actually do or do not have.