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Atheists, isn't your non-belief system unjust?
You're to believe that if a murderer gets away with their crime, they've gotten away with it forever, and when they die, they will be subject to no reward or punishment, as will everybody else. How unjust is that!
If you're a Christian, you believe that people will be held accountable for their actions in life. I know you'll bring up repentance, but as you can imagine, true repentance is quite rare. God knows the heart of the individual, and if you're to truly ask for forgiveness, you cannot be doing it because you're watching out for your best interests.
The only way to seek forgiveness is because you feel bad and you've changed your ways. Now you tell me, which system is more just?
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- ?Lv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
You have a very emotional need for justice. There's nothing particularly wrong with that. But it influences the way you think.
I don't believe in something because it "should" be that way. Things are the way they are.
Children "shouldn't" have to go hungry. People "shouldn't" be murdered. Yet this happens, all under the watch of your alleged God.
By the way, most Christians I run into preach that salvation comes by faith alone. That is, Jesus died for your sins. So in other words, you're no longer held accountable for your actions, because Jesus - the scapegoat - died for them. Sounds to me like Christianity is the one with an accountability problem.
- 8 years ago
Will repenting bring back the dead?
Will forgiveness bring back the dead?
Will feeling bad change the fact that you've killed someone?
Will regret change the fact that you've killed someone?
Murdering someone will give them a criminal record. This means loosing potentially half of the amount of jobs that you can now have. Some countries (e.g. America) will not allow you to enter their territory if you have a criminal record.
Are you saying that only Christians believe that people are held accountable for their actions in life? Oh, that's strange, because many of my atheist friends believe that too. (THEY'RE SECRETLY CHRISTIAN :O)
- robin_lionheartLv 78 years ago
Imagine someone murdered your child, and they catch the murderer and take them to court. Suddenly the murderer's mother comes up to the bar and says she will do the murderer's sentence for him. The murderer walks out of court a free man, while his mother goes to jail. Would you feel that justice had been done?
Christianity's core concept of anyone taking your punishment for you is fundamentally unjust. People who worship in glass churches should not throw stones.
And just because an idea makes you feel good does not make it true. Personally, if I have a choice to believe a harsh truth or a comforting lie, I choose truth, every time.
- 8 years ago
Its not like the murderer wouldn't regret his/her actions. Murder is universally accepted as deviant in almost every major culture. Ever read the tell-tale heart? The man goes crazy after murdering someone and leaves the body underneath a floorboard only to hear the heart beat. If you want to do something about this, then help work towards a more ethical society. Press personal accountability and always pull the guilt card (it is psychologically proven to convince people to help).
- 8 years ago
So it's better to believe a guilty man will be punished even though he won't be, that's not unjust that's moronic
- 8 years ago
but it is just in your opinion for a person who kidnaped, brutally raped, tortured and killed several children to go to heaven because he felt bad and repented about it at the end of his life?
The irony...
Source(s): you are delusional - ?Lv 78 years ago
Not unjust at all.
Failure to apprehend or prosecute a killer is a human failing.
Christians just cant be satisfied unless they are sure "somebody is gonna get it !"...how childish.
Cant you just behave without being threatened into it ?
- ?Lv 48 years ago
I could make up a fuá´king religion right now that would have more "justice" than Christianity but it doesn't make it more likely to be true.
Reality doesn't give a Ñhit about what you want to be true.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Of course it's unjust, the universe is a cruel place. It's not sunshine and rainbows.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Appeal to consequences fallacy.