"He exists and heaven and hell are very real places"
Just two words completely annihilates your claim - as well as your [i]argumentum ad baculum[/i] via the good ol' threats of 'Turn or Burn':
Prove it.
[b]Your own 'Word of God' [i]forces[/i] people to use the Scientific Method on God: Testing. Evidence. Logic & Reasoning; the very things you fundies are so opposed to, which are the basis of Atheism.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV Cambridge Ed): 'Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.'
I refer you to the above two words: Prove it. Enjoy your paradox.
And as for said threats you fundies are always reduced to, when we won't listen to your bullshit 'beliefs'; yeah, yeah, seen the film, bought the book, T-shirt & Blu-Ray a trillion times before. Come up with something new, mm'kay? El tedioso! (*YAWN*):
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Besides, if this 'God of Love' you always bang on & on about can't change his mind, and let we Atheists into heaven regardless of if we 'believe' or not,, then isn't that him limiting his supposed 'omnipotence'? If he can't change his mind - when he's supposed to be able to do anything - then you yourself will have just admitted that he's not God, therefore he's a contradiction to himself, ergo he doesn't exist. Q.E. and D., bitches. [/hyper-smartarse]
'Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.'
-Marcus Aurelius
When the fundie is reduced to threats to try and 'proseltyse' - i.e. force their 'beliefs' on others - when in centuries past, the Christian church had absolute authority over entire nations, never mind their peoples, then you are the exact reason why secularism's star is in the ascendant in said nations previously controlled by the Christian church, and Roman Catholicism's power (particularly via the Inquisition) over people is on the wane; dying.
And - like your 'God' - it deserves to die. We the people now have more than every right in the world, especially via legislation, to tell religion - including it's pastors/preachers, believers such as you, and your Biblegod - what to do; as far as you are concerned, fundies, we Atheists are God.
We exist, he doesn't. Deal. With. It.
