23 Mar
2011
23 Mar
'11
5:09 p.m.
On 23/03/11 20:07, Tony Duell wrote:
All the religions that I've come across require
oyu to beleive in that
religious system to get to their idea of heaven. As an agnostic, I don't
meet any such criteria. So if there is a hereafter, I am going to end up
in hades...
How about this:
* To get into heaven, you need to believe in $religionA or $religionB.
* Everyone who doesn't believe in $religionA will go to Hell.
* Equally, everyone who doesn't believe in $religionB will go to Hell.
* You can't believe in both religions, because their requirements are in
mutual conflicting.
* Union of "people who don't follow religionA" and "people who
don't
follow religionB" = everyone.
* Thus everyone is going to hell.
* Now flip the argument around so that everyone goes to heaven... Now
you have an impossibility:
set of everyone going to heaven = set of everyone going to hell
* This leaves the statements:
Everyone goes to heaven
Everyone goes to hell
Which are mutually exclusive!
"A curious game. The only way to win is not to play."
(I wanted to put a "QED" in here, but couldn't find a good place for it...)
If we're getting onto the subject of religion, I'll throw this in to the
pan (with apologies to Jeff Dunham):
"If I'm dead, where are my 40 virgins?"
"Did your Book say the virgins would be female?"
"...... Holy crap!"
--
Phil.
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