[ExI] atheism

Post Futurist p0stfuturist at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 17 05:56:35 UTC 2009


> Have any of you read the Isaac Asimov story about a man who
> is an avowed
> atheist and upon his death learns there actually is a God
> and an afterlife?
> The man rails against God for the ills of earth life and
> even declares that
> he will dedicate his endless afterlife existance to finding
> a way to defeat
> him!  

This opens possibilities in SF: 
1) Theist dies, to find out all his atheist family & friends are in Hell; he is alone forevermore in Paradise with no companionship, nothing to do, so he dies yet again-- of a broken heart-- and goes to be with his kin & friends Down There.

2) An atheist is rewarded by going to Heaven (with plenty of atheist company there) because he is sincere,
while his theist people burn in Hell for their insincere fake-faith, so he dies of a broken heart-- to be reunited with his people.

Or... ("that's enough, get a life fer chrissakes")



      
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