http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2007/06/heaven_or_hell/comments.html#comments
Do you believe in heaven or hell?
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No more than Christians believe in Valhalla or any other mythos other
than theirs. In short, not at all.
If not, why not?
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Probably for the same reasons Christians don't believe in the eternal
consequenses of superstitions older than theirs.
In short, no reason to.
BTW, ya'll might find this tidbit of interest;
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But some recent research on the temperature of Hell yields surprising
results:
"The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our
authority is Isaiah 30:26:
"Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and
the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days."
Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the
Sun, and in addition 7 x 7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the
Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one
1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that.
The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat
lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e.,
Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the
Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the
absolute temperature of the earth (-300ºK), gives H as 798ºK (525ºC).
The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed. However, Revelation
21:8 says:
"But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and brimstone."
A lake of molten brimstone [sulphur] means that its temperature must be
at or below its boiling point, 444.6ºC.We have, then, that Heaven, at
525ºC is hotter than Hell at 445ºC."
From: Applied Optics (1972, 11 A14)
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Atheist n A person to be pitied in that he is
unable to believe things for which there is
no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of
a convenient means of feeling superior to others.
—Chaz Bufe, The American Heretic’s Dictionary
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