"What are you going to tell god after you die? What are you going to tell him before he sends you to Hell? "
I mostly just tell the little Christians that hypothetically if their god were real, it can erase me from existence because I didn’t ask to exist nor do I care. Mythologically, I think the Lake of Fire is supposed to wipe out non followers from existence anyway, if I’m not mistaken.
“The God of the Bible.” (I have to pin this down first because I don’t want them sliding into some amorphous being that exists beyond time and space who is all loving.) Step One: Exactly which god are we discussing?
Oh! The god of Abraham?
“YES!”
I would ask him why he is so proud of being jealous petty, unjust, unforgiving, vindictive, bloodthirsty bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously and a malevolent bully.
But I would have to put that on a card and carry it around to remember it all. The short version is “Why is your god such a fucking ass?” He kills kids for calling a man 'baldy." He condones slavery. He tortures Job. He floods the world, killing all flesh, saves animals, and then demands they be sacrificed. If he worked for any major company in the world today, he would be fired for incompetence. The Bible is a record of God’s failures.
SORRY: So I would ask him: “Why in the fuck didn’t you do it right the first time?”
I forgot to respond directly to the question. Seriously though. If is was an all powerful bla bla bnla… what in the hell is all this failure about. The failure is God’s not mankind’s. After all, he is the one with perfect knowledge and a plan.
Easy. If it is the god of the bible to which they are referring, my response to them would be, “I would say absolutely NOTHING. I shouldn’t have to say anything. Your god should ALREADY KNOW exactly why I am there and what I am thinking/feeling.”
No. That’s Santa Claus. Do you think God and Santa share the same Naughty and Nice list? You know, doesn’t that make the Easter Bunny better than both of them. The Easter Bunny passes out those dang chocolate eggs to everyone. No mention of naughty or nice! Unconditional Chocloate Love. I think the Easter Bunny makes a better God than God or Santa. He is a lot less judgmental, and has never said a word about sexual partners or positions or masturbation. I vote for the Easter Bunny for God.
I tell people (if they are willing to listen, as opposed to preaching) that God has chosen to be hidden from human view (divine hiddeness?), so it’s reasonable that God wants us to act as if He doesn’t exist.
So, if God consigns my soul to the lake of fire, than He is unreasonable . . . and if God is unreasonable, then we’re all screwed with a pinecone anyway, so debating this question accomplishes nothing.
Well the first thing I would do is pinch her/him and then I would pinch myself and finally I would say, " wow so you’re real. Anyway no harm no foul right." Of course I would hope not to go down laughing
I’ll base my response on if it was the Christian god…
I’d ask why do you leave such piss poor evidence, why you allow the speakers for your faith to be such arseholes and in the face of such things as say… bone cancer in children, why should i still be compelled to follow such a sinister twat.
The lake of fire is eternal torment which doesnt wipe us from existence. It consistently literally tortures.
I would say to God thankyou for saving me because i believe i have the right mind and heart and life to be accepted by God. God trains us for eternal fellowship.
It’s also completely unevidenced, and I no more fear the imagined machinations of Hell, than I fear being dragged to a watery grave by nefarious mermaids, and for the same reason.
No deity has made it’s existence remotely apparent to me, so this is demonstrably false.