If you didnt believe in God, what then?
What would you if you didnt believe in God or someone proved he didnt exist? What would you need in your life to continue living? What would you live for?
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Why would you need God at all to make your life have purpose? Do you really need a purpose handed to you, like a computer and it's programming? Are you incapable of finding your own reason?
To answer the question...
Were I to not believe in God ( I don't, anyhow ) I like to think that I would continue to do my best, like I do now, to make this life as good and... well... less full of senseless, purposeless suffering as I can. Be ashamed to die without having won some victory for humanity, say I. One does not need God to be good. Kindness for kindness own sake will ad has and continues to do more good than centuries of prayer EVER will. Period.
Being pious is all well and good. Be as pious as you please, if it please ye. But piety in the pews without a honest love for your brothers and sisters in worse situations than yours is rampant hypocrisy. You may pray and tithe and all that good stuff, but if you deliberately treat your lessers like, well, lesser than you, then St. Peter will still deny you entry passt yon pearly gates.
To answer the question...
Were I to not believe in God ( I don't, anyhow ) I like to think that I would continue to do my best, like I do now, to make this life as good and... well... less full of senseless, purposeless suffering as I can. Be ashamed to die without having won some victory for humanity, say I. One does not need God to be good. Kindness for kindness own sake will ad has and continues to do more good than centuries of prayer EVER will. Period.
Being pious is all well and good. Be as pious as you please, if it please ye. But piety in the pews without a honest love for your brothers and sisters in worse situations than yours is rampant hypocrisy. You may pray and tithe and all that good stuff, but if you deliberately treat your lessers like, well, lesser than you, then St. Peter will still deny you entry passt yon pearly gates.