What if your wrong about your religion?

What's the big deal? Why do you care? Why can't people be free to believe what they choose without someone that has the answer for themselves thinking it's the only answer for everyone?

Personally I don't care a fig who is or isn't "right" and "wrong"...as long as you;'re happy with your chosen belief, I'm happy for you. I'm content with mine, regardless of what anyone else chooses to think or believe about it.

What if you're wrong about your contextual use of "your"?

I'm agnostic.

Worst case scenario, when I die, I could go to hell for not being Christian. But if I were Christian, worst case scenario is that I go to hell for not being a Catholic or a Mormon or a Jehovah's witness.

If there's a God who wants me to pick one of those religions over the others or my current ways of thought, he should make it a little more clear. Almost nobody converts from the religion that their parents taught them unless they're getting married or had a terrible life experience.

In the meantime, I think being a good person is what's important. And I consider myself to be a much better person than those who spread hate, violence, and war by twisting around the words and teachings of their own religion.

ps - What the hell is with all the people who are replying to this topic but aren't answering the question it asks at all?

It doesn't matter what you believe, but if you can't answer a HYPOTHETICAL question because you lack the faith and courage to examine yourself and your own beliefs, then your faith and ideals are very weak to begin with and that's sad. That goes for atheists as well as the faithful.

It's not that difficult:

"What IF out of some SLIM, TINY, little possibility you are a flawed, imperfect, mortal being and you just might NOT know the answer to everything that is, was, and ever will be?"

Hypothetically, if I'm wrong, it wouldn't matter. Even if I ended up in Hell. I don't think me ending up in hell for disbelief of one god or another is a reflection on my actions here on earth. That's more of a reflection on the god that created hell just because people didn't believe in him. ;-) And if it turns out to be one of the other gods, I wouldn't worry about that too much either. I haven't run into a god yet, other than the biblical god, that even does this sort of thing - according to his followers that is.

I would most likely not feel much of anything, because overall, I was honest with myself on this point. If that's not good enough, then oh well. =)

If there is no God, then I will have lived an amazing life, full of joy and love. If there is a good God whom I have not followed, he will not despise me for my ignorance. No righteous God would judge me harshly for having some misunderstandings concerning doctrine, as long as I practice righteousness. I refuse to follow a wicked God.

There is a joke that is told about the Mormons. A Mormon dies and presents himself to St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter, upon finding out that the man is a Mormon, instructs him to get in the elevator and go to the very bottom exit. If he finds fire and smoke, devastation and ruin, weeping and wailing, then he will know he has found the right place. The Mormon, who is now quite discouraged, gets into the elevator and goes to the very bottom floor. When the doors open, he is greeted by sweet air, grassy fields, and the sound of laughter and joy. He figures he must be in the wrong place, so he hops back in the elevator and returns to St. Peter. He explains to St. Peter what he saw. Then St. Peter exclaims: "What? Those damn Mormons have been irrigating again?"

It is a sound principle to make the best heaven out of whatever hell you are in.

Well, as an atheist, I might have lied a few times, probably hurt some people but I really didn't mean to, I've also done all I could to be a good human being and help others, so if I'm wrong and there is a god like the christian one, and he does send me to hell for not believing, then I'll just tell him that there's something very wrong with his logic.

To a Christian who has matured in Christ I can look back and see that religion was merely a stepping stone in the foundation of my faith for there was the knowledge I learned that saved me and then there was the knowledge I learned after I was saved. We all have to start somewhere, I as a Catholic until I heard the truth about the Catholic church and left it. Any ex- Catholic who left that religion did so because they had a love of the truth.

God does not ask for religion but a relationship with Him through Jesus Christ.

John 3:16-18

The indwelt Holy Spirit reveals the truth of Jesus Christ to me.

While I know the religion is correct, it doesn't mean I know or understand everything as I am always learning new things about it or correcting misperceptions pretty regularly 0 I gain a clearer and clearer view of God and his workings over time - the religioin is correct and from God but I'm still getting to know them.

A religion is simple a group of people of the same spiritual faith.

My uncle does not believe in religion but every Sunday, he meets with a group of atheists who smoke cigars drink whiskey and discus politics; except for the spiritual concept, it's the same as any religious association.

So is my uncle also wrong?

What ever floats your boat is stable guy. human beings would desire to overview that faith (or lack thereof) is subjective, and unquestionably everyone has their on deal. Edit: To the guy above me: i need to be burned on the stake for saying this, yet Atheism IS a faith. Allbeit a faith of no faith, yet a faith none the fewer. you would be taken aback how little you have unquestionably set us back ;-)