Serious Q: With all the different religious/philosophy persuasions in R&S section, and many are pretty strong

I honestly don't know. Right now I can say yes but when it comes down to it will I really have the courage? I don't know.

It would depend upon the situation, really.

I would not die for my religion in most circumstances I can imagine, but I can't really say that across the board.

And I don't look at it as being weak in my faith. I don't have a CHOICE of what I believe in - I just believe in it. That's the way I view the world, and no amount of threatening or persuasion can possibly change that.

Are you asking if I would denounce my faith in a life or death situation? For there are a great many things that come well before religion on my list of priorities - my family is one, my friends are another...my life is also.

Would I do something against my spiritual principles in the face of death? To be honest, there's not a lot that goes against them - and they can change from situation to situation, since I follow no absolute or inflexible dogma. I might kill another person to save myself, depending on who that person is and what that person's situation is. Give me a break; I don't think I'm done with this life yet, and I think there are likely a lot of other people out there who'd agree with me on this. Perhaps it's selfish, but I'm human, damn it!

If your God isn't something worth dying for, then nothing is.

Strangely, you act like dying is something you can avoid if you choose to. You are going to die. Try imagining that. A time where you don't even know you existed. Not blackness, but a complete lack of awareness. That is what the atheists hope is out there.

I am reminded of a quote I read somewhere (Christian): Why do we resist giving up that which we cannot keep [life] for something that we cannot lose [eternal joy with jesus in heaven]?

I wish you luck in your quest.

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To me it is the one who cannot open his mind and embrace what others believe. To die for something implys that there is opposition facing you. And that opposition can be a gun, or words that can feel like bullets when it comes to something so delicate as someones understanding of their own existance. Personally before I died for my own beliefs, I would first have to see how they were constructed. And in order to do so, I would

have to look at myself and wonder why such loyality to an idea that I believe to be true, but my opposition doesent. Why? THen I might have to look at it from their perception.

I am not saying that the answer is to not believe, but I think the answer is to bend for someone elses. I do not see you as being weak because you would choose not to die, I see someone open for the possibility that maybe someone elses beliefs matter too.

I wish you well.

I am Jewish, and the tradition is to live by the Torah, not die by the Torah. For example, during Yom Kippur, pregnant women and young children do not have to fast, and are encouraged not to. Shabbat rules can be violated in the case of an emergency. I think this is a very reasonable philosophy- Martyrdom is horribly romanticized.

That would be the equivalent to asking an atheist if they would die for a beloved child or parent. Wouldn't we all die for someone we love? Without a doubt. Of course I would hope it wouldn't come to that, but I've thought about it often and wondered what would I REALLY do? Answer? I could not, and would not deny my Lord after how He has transformed me and changed my life!

My beliefs are strong. I'd be betraying myself and my faith if I turned away in the face of death. I would rather die for what I believe in than live a lie. My death would serve its purpose if I by dying I could change one person.

I once had an overzealous 'Christian' put a gun to my face and demand to know if I believed in God now. I reached up, corrected his aim, and calmly told him I didn't believe in any god so weak as to be contained in a small lump of copper and lead. He walked away in confusion.

Considering I probably would have survived his improper aim at the cost only of my left cheekbone and both upper and lower jaw, and still found myself in the moment correcting his aim to assure he'd do maximal frontal lobe and brainstem damage... I guess I technically would. Either that or I'd rather die than be horribly disfigured and forced do undergo months of reconstructive facial surgery.

I would hope I had the courage, the Bible says "I can do all things through Him that strengthen me" and " What does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul?" When you compare the act of dying against eternity, it clears the mind. I wouldn't want to try to save my life on earth that badly.