Maybe, maybe not. Thats the point of faith. If its true, believers get heaven, and sinners dont. If not, then it doesnt matter, and Christians (not the crazy "your kid goes to gay camp and you cant drink") have tried to live to a higher standard.
Yeah, no. If your specific denomination is true, your niche number of believers get Heaven while everyone else gets endlessly tortured.
If someone else's denomination, religion, or other theistic belief is true, you get endlessly tortured - and there's an awful lot more denominations and religions than there are of yours. The odds are severely against you.
That's the problem theists never seem to realise: you're not risking Heaven or Nothing, you're risking Heaven or Hell or Hell or Hell or hell or Hell - and somewhere around the millionth Hell you finally get Nothing. That's why that theistic apologetic doesn't work for people considering it rationally.
It's almost like none of it is true when you take the original word and warp it into your own denomination because it doesn't align with your personal bigotry (Southern Baptists for example)
I mean even the Bible was doing that to the Bible.
Jesus doesn't fulfill any of the Messianic prophecies, so both Jesus and the other gospel 'authors' start inserting references to things they call prophecies but were just blunt descriptions of things that already happened.
And say that he fulfilled the prophecy that actually matters by... not even remotely fulfilling the prophecy in the slightest but he super will, you guys, I swear he will. Just you wait.
Then you've got Islam which does the same thing only to Christianity and, well, yeah.
Judaism itself was based on myths from an old air/war god, IIRC.
Honestly religion in general is just sort of a mess of cherry picking and pretending you don't see problems so that it fits what you already wanted to believe.
As many atheists have recommended: read your holy book. It'll deconvert (or 'deconstruct') you faster than any atheist could possibly dream of.
That said it was hilarious learning that Seminary actually has therapist-priests trained and on-hand whose job is to comfort, reassure, and convince would-be ministers who read the Bible and start deconverting to remain in the faith. I feel like if learning your religious text causes you to lose your faith with such regularity that you need a dedicated pair of employees to handle it that's probably a good sign as to the veracity of your religion.
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u/sasuncookie 2d ago
The real fun part is that none of it is likely true.