"What if you're Wrong??"

I've often encountered people (mostly Christian solicitors) asking me "what if you're wrong about what you believe?" and I've actually thought about it.

My mentality in regards to my beliefs and what I do about them is that this is right for me. If it wasn't then I wouldn't believe what I do...I'd believe and be something entirely different. I believe what I believe because that's what makes sense to me. But what if I'm wrong??

Then I'm wrong!

I'm not afraid of the afterlife (it's the process of GETTING there that terrifies me). I'm not afraid of the possibility that I'll end up in the office of God (whomever it is...let's say the God of Abraham), and he'll ask me why I lived my life the way I did and why I wasn't Christian. I'd have to tell him:

"I followed what made sense to me. I tried to live as good a life as I knew how. I tried to be a good wife, mother, friend, sister and daughter. Sure I've made mistakes down the road, but isn't that what we we're put on earth to do? Make mistakes and learn from them?? 

As for why I wasn't Christian, Christianity didn't make sense to me. I couldn't fathom why people would believe that a deity figure who is said to be all forgiving, all loving...would send someone to a place of eternal torture for something so benign as a lack of faith or belief, or for following a religion that wasn't assigned to them. It would make more sense to eternally torture someone for doing something so heinous as to torture another person for no other reason than to give themselves personal satisfaction and pleasure. It would also make more sense to eternally torture someone who felt it was their personal mission in life to torment people through determining what is right and wrong for another and FORCE them to conform to their own personal desires and wishes. It DOESN'T make sense however to eternally torture someone because they decided that Shiva was God and Jesus wasn't. 

There are lots of religions in the world. There are lots for a reason. If humans were meant to follow one God and only one God...there would only be one religion in the world, and everyone would follow it WILLINGLY. There would be no need for people to go door to door asking if you've found Jesus; there would be no need for street corner preachers telling us we're all damned because we believe something else...humanity would live free from harassment from other religious people because there would be no other religions from which one would need saving. 

I did what I thought was right, and I'm not sorry for following what made sense in my heart. If I'm to be punished for doing what I believed was right, then so be it. I accept it with full awareness.


But the thing is...are these door-to-door solicitors willing to do the same? Are they willing to acknowledge the possibility that they too may be wrong? Have they thought about what they would say to the deity they find themselves face to face with in the afterlife? Are they open enough to think about the possibility that they are wrong about what they believe? Do they have the courage to admit they were wrong? I do...but do they??