Who gets into the afterlife?

[Onionsoilder]

First off, this is not intended to be a religious debate, though it has the possibility to devolve into one, so I ask you to refrain from flaming. Rather, it is an opinion on who you think passes onto the afterlife(If multiple afterlifes exist in your religion, pick the best one), regardless of if you're Christan, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Kilmorphian or one of Cthulu's Cultists.

Poll will be up shortly.

EDIT: To clear up some misconception: By afterlife, I'm meant the ultimate goal most strive for. Heaven would be the afterlife, but Purgatory/Hell would not(even though they technically are. I guess I messed up the wording here).

 

[bathsheba666]

Do we get an option instead to pass on the afterlife, given so many of the other people we expect to appear?

 

[Onionsoilder]

Hmm... I didn't specifically include that in the poll, but there is an 'other' option.

 

[Cutlass]

The thermodynamics of hell prove that everyone goes there.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Everyone gets dissociated into their molecules sooner or later.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Voted: Afterlife doesn't exist

Reasons:
1) I don't believe in the soul, or rather, I have no reason to believe in the soul, the immortal self or eternal ego.
2) The best way to explain what awaits after death, is to remember that which precedes birth.

 

[Berzerker]

that would be the Mormons, the Mormons


awww

 

[warpus]

Curious that you excluded the most common Christian position (some believers make it in) from your poll

 

[Shekwan]

Those who exhibit Dudely virtues get to the afterife. So I went for the virtuous option.

 

[Tekee]

Well since you are all atheists, I can say this. The official position of the both the oldest and most direct Christian Church, the Catholic and Orthodox. Say this.
Salvation is granted to ALL humans, regardless of religion.
The Orthodox Church is the most direct and most complete path, every other religion strays too much with too much pointless and strange prayers or deeds.
So, everyone gets into afterlife. Whether you like it or not
Both believers and virtuous non-believers make it.

I also don't believe hell is "eternal". Interesting question to find an answer to, be back later.

 

[warpus]

If everyone makes it into heaven, what makes it so exclusive? There's gotta be some sort of secret club that only certain people make it into!

Otherwise heaven is nothing but a class-less communist plot.

 

[Miles Teg]

This poll is utterly worthless, as it doesn't recognize that only those who die in battle will go their eternal reward.

 

[cardgame]

I don't think there is an afterlife. Especially the hell that christians talk about.

you BETTER worship HIM, or DIE...for eternity...with no senses (nerves, eyes, ears, smell, touch, taste...no PERCEPTION because your body will already be DEAD and incapable of PERCEPTION)

 

[Kerozine]

What difference would it make?

 

[aronnax]

I believe that all good people go to heaven, regardless of belief.

 

[warpus]

I believe that all good people go to heaven, regardless of belief.

Who determines how much goodness is required, over what period of time, and what its definition is?

 

[Annex]

Everyone should get the option to enter Hell, no matter how good and moral they were in life.

 

[Camikaze]

I'm of the "everyone's a winner!" persuasion.

 

[aronnax]

Who determines how much goodness is required, over what period of time, and what its definition is?

Is it me who can best interpret God's judgment on who is good person and who is not?

Morality is always sketchy and vague on what is right and what is wrong. There isn't some graph to follow. You cannot squeeze human goodness and civility into a mold for you to follow. If we did that... well we would get organised religion and nobody wants that.

 

[scherbchen]

I kind of like to think that if there is an afterlife decent people get to have their fun time there. no idea what happens to the sordid ones, though.

probably no afterlife, though, for none of us. personally I'd rather buy that spaceship on the dark side of the moon story or naked amazon women on venus who ride dinosaurs.... wait, that right there was my perfect afterlife, I just jinxed it.