[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Charles Taylor Templeton Prize
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:01:04 -0700
From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
If time is an issue at all, it may be
because (religious nuts) think of eternity, while the atheist has only a much
more
limited timespan and tends to be a short-term thinker.
Ha. Double ha.
For Christians, time goes back to only a few thousand years. No big bang, no evolution.
Their sky god created the world in the last ten thounand years or so. Time goes forward only
a few more years; they're expecting the rapture and the apocalyse any day now. After that,
they go to heaven, where they can't really imagine singing in a choir for more than a few
years. Ask a christian how he is going to deal with singing christmas carols for 200 million
years.
For atheists... time goes back 14 billion years to the big bang. Time goes forward some 50
billion years to the energy death of the universe, where all matter has evaporated and
energy has been distributed. After that, infinity.
Atheists don't build cathedrals because they know it's a waste of time. Three billion years
from now, none of the cathedrals will exist.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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