Are there cats in heaven ?

[modeller]

My granddaughter's cat was sick , nothing serious , but she asked me if it dies will it go to heaven. Now I don't believe in heaven , hell and all that nonsense but if I'm wrong what should my answer have been ?

If all life is of equal value then the answer must be yes but if it is yes where does one draw the line ? Does it include bacteria ?

If the answer is no then who and what goes there ?

Maybe the Buddhists have got it right that there is a finite number of life forms
but we keep getting resurrected so last time you might have been a bug and next time you could be a bacterium and then a bird and so on. I wonder if you could become a cabbage ? It is a life form .

My answer was yes to make her feel better .

[modeller]

Although I don't believe in an afterlife of any sort I would like to think that I could meet up with my pets again especially my cats, they gave me love and affection and something to live for when I lost my wife. They needed me and I needed them . I can well understand theists needing the crutches of religion. I can't accept that nonsense but I'm glad I had my cats.

I know you are right angorstran all life continue through their progeny but it's not much consolation in the here and now.

[boxtops]

I like to think so, too, modeller...

[modeller]

percy #When you are getting towards the end of your life, i bet you will change your attitude. Do you really think all this is here for fun? do you believe that when you die it's lights out? #
Yes I do ! and the older I get the more atheistic I become . I'm already 20 years past my sell by date . So I'm not likely to change now .

[dundurn]

There's a St Felix, a St Sylvester and a St Thomas - got to be!

[boxtops]

LOL dundurn, well spotted.

[naomi24]

Boxy, //I'm only sorry that this well-meant thread was "digressed" in the middle - I thought it was a nice thread until then. //

You did? I'm not sure what you're reading, but I think it went downhill from some unnecessary and irrelevant posts from the poster who started at number 2.

[NOX]

If there is a heaven, do you seriously think even God could keep cats out?

[mike11111]

Oooh, get her! Saucer of milk for pussy!

[naomi24]

^^Yes, indeed. I think that would suit her very well.

[mike11111]

"...and stop bothering those of us with something interesting and relevant to say"

Now that's boring little uninteresting and irrelevant me told off for sure!

[owdhamer]

I wish all my neighbours cats would go to heaven

[ludwig]

Watch out folks, Mike's back. He obviously didn't make enough of a fool of himself last time he was here so he's back for another go.

[NOX]

Mike had indeed used to contribute sensible, he however has not posted anything sensible for a while, which might mean several things including that he might not be very well- just a thought.

[percypineapple]

My god,
some of you are chancing your luck! I hope for your sake there is no god/afterlife for you, or you will be in the barrell on friday nights. Aethism is a terrible thing, what in life can you live for? I don't want to get into religion, but without our christian god, there would have been just death and destruction in the early world, the bible is a way of life for sensible caring people, and brought some of the heathens into the modern advanced world.
like it or like it not, the children of the bible and christian people are the most forward and advanced people in the world, and if they want to believe there is an afterlife for them, good luck and I really hope they are right.
percy..

[LazyGun]

I think Percy is a time traveller - early victorian, I would say. I mean, come on - heathens? Atheism = nihilism? Pascals Wager fallacy?

As for christians being the most advanced people in the world - hardly. That may have been true back in the victorian times from where you originate percy, but not now. As Birdie points out, secularism and the removal of theist dogma and the flowering of science has powered development, not religion.

I think percys posts indicate either Troll or Time Traveller - its difficult to believe these are genuinely held belief.................

[naomi24]

//some of you are chancing your luck!//

Another one scared witless by the superstitious ramblings of ancient, uneducated, tribesmen.

//without our christian god, there would have been just death and destruction in the early world,//

We won't mention the Americas then.