But you won't and it isn't because you're afraid of divine retribution. I'm guessing you wouldn't be able to live with yourself if you did that (unless you are mentally deranged). As for the parenthetical part, I'm guessing you're not.
Old books. You ever heard of Circe or Cyclops? From Homer's Odyssey? Written long before the Bible was cobbled together. A lot more fun to read, too. A woman that can turn men into pigs and a one-eyed giant. People will talk about any old stuff. Most things worth talking about, aren't...
That question should be taken out behind the barn and shot so as to put it out of its misery. Just because I appreciate the fact that Jews don't proselytize doesn't mean I wanna play the dreidel game for Hannukah. That logic is so bent it has to look down to see up.
I own my own home. In my neighborhood the most popular religion is probably Shinto. Who told you that only Southern Baptists will get to go to heaven? Let me guess: Southern Baptists. Final answer. Boy, I'm good.
Ok, I'll check it out. Not too long ago I read Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet. It taught me everything I ever wanted to learn about the Church, and then some.
Yeah, right, sure you were interested in athe"ism". You're a liar and full of it, troll. There is no such thing as atheism. Just like there is no such thing as aphilatelism.
No. If by "them" Jesus meant those doing the crucifying or those responsible for it, they were not forgiven. I don't know what you mean by "foolishness".
Stalin was a creep of the first water. His mama went too far when she squirted his protoplasm into existence. His views on religion aren't worth a hill of beans. He could dress as the pope or the devil himself. What difference would that make?
This is a very interesting question. My own bias is that science would be correct and that you would be you without any loss of so-called "soul".
You have also offered immortality. If such science in your hypothetical ever came to be, I am one hundred percent certain that would be the end of...