I was asked last week by a friend if I was scared by the risk of there being a "god" and the fact I could go to "hell." I had to really think about a good response for this. So later, I responded to her, instead questioning why she would ask. I said: Even if there was this possible "risk" why not just leave the atheists alone, rather than ridicule them for their only possible "good" portion of their lifes? Because if this was true, then the religious people would have an eternity of "heaven" and good fortune while the atheists would only have had about +/- 75 years of "good" life and then suffer for ever. Why disrupt that person's only "good" time? When YOU (the christian) have nothing to loose yourself if you don't disrupt the atheist's life.
The past few days I have been thinking if that was a good response to such a trivial question. I don't know if I regret that response. I don't know if that response was strong enough to justify the scenario she put out there.
Any ideas? Was that a rational answer?