Pregunta abierta: “You’ll believe when you’re burning in hell!”?

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Well, yes, I guess I will. I could just reply, “Well, you won’t be a believer when you’re not burning in hell.” But that somehow lacks the punch of a truly powerful answer. If I “wake up” in hell, whatever that is, I expect that would be enough evidence for me to become a believer. And it may seem odd or even unfair that, if the Christian is right, he and I will presumably both find out that he is right, while not the opposite. (If the secular humanist/atheistic position is the right one, neither secular humanist nor Christian will “find out” anything after death.) But no one should mistake such a point for evidence that counts in favor of the believer being right.When a religionist declares that I’ll become a believer when I’m suffering eternal torture, it does lead to a couple of interesting questions to ask him: 1. “Why is your god so sadistic as to provide conclusive evidence only after condemning me to endless unimaginable suffering, while giving me no credible evidence while