i haven't read the thread, but, i usually ask an atheist this question: "what if you're wrong?"

then they ask me the same thing back.

and, i say, "well, if I'm wrong, i have lived a virtuous life of faith, persevering toward good, practicing healthy character traits and then died satisfied and happy and became compost. I have lost nothing.

If you are wrong, you may or may not have lived a virtuous life, because life is complete absurdity and it doesn't really matter anyway. You may or may not have practiced healthy character traits for no other reason than to better yourself, but it doesn't matter anyway, because after you die you believe its to the worms anyway!

you may or may not have died satisfied and happy, but then you meet God face-to-face and realize that you wasted your entire physical life without a relationship with the Most High God and all of important life lessons you needed in the next life (which you will need to learn before you can advance onward to heaven - could take aeons, and includes intense weeping, gnashing of teeth, and total humiliation.

If you remain an atheist at this point, not believing anything that is right in front of your face, then you get to die again. This time, it's forever.

You have lost everything"

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