# You may ask God any three yes-or-no questions and have them answered. What do you ask? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 19, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750 "2009-09-19T21:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750/61 "2009-09-24T02:54:02Z")
Are you the psychotic fruitcake that all available evidence suggests, given the actual existence of an all-powerful God? C’mon, really? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750/62 "2009-09-24T04:33:34Z")
1. Do you condone the use of religions? 2. Is there an afterlife? 3. Is it possible for humans to exceed the speed of light with a spaceship or other mechanical aid, survive the process, and make a round trip to a star 100 ly away and back with less than a year of time passing on earth? 1 is purely to get people to shut up about it already. 2 is sorta irrelevant, but I think it would help focus us better, regardless of the answer. 3 is just for my peace of mind, since I’d like to see mankind spread to every corner of the universe. Or at least to a few other planets. ---
**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750/63 "2009-09-24T12:50:22Z")
1. When we die, will we automatically know everything? 2. What will we do for eternity in Heaven? 3. If we go to Hell, is it literally a lake of fire? ---
**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750/64 "2009-09-24T12:51:53Z")
Sorry, #2 isn’t a yes or no answer. This is too hard for me, I just woke up. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750/65 "2009-09-24T13:19:38Z")
> [@silvermist](#): > > Sorry, #2 isn’t a yes or no answer. This is too hard for me, I just woke up. It could be – it’s just that you wouldn’t understand the answer. Are you saing God _can’t_ answer yes or no to it? Is this one of those large vs unmoveable conundrums? ---
**Author:** ![SMullen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@SMullen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SMullen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750/66 "2009-09-24T19:37:44Z")
Wow. What a great opportunity! Here are my 3: 1. Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? 2. Was there a real UFO crash at Roswell? 3. May I go to the Rainbow Bridge and be a pet angel when I die? Uh-oh. I can hear the answers now: 1. I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you. 2. I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you. 3. Why do you keep asking stuff that I can’t answer unless I kill you? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750/67 "2009-09-24T19:51:20Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Well, [God IS online](http://www.titane.ca/concordia/dfar251/igod/main.html), so we can ask him all these questions and more. Me: Hello. God: Hello friend. What is your name? Me: Don’t you know? God: Sure I know. But I cannot tell you right now. Me: Why not? I already know my name. God: Ambiguous: “Sure” or The explanation is rather complicated. Who told you? Me: My mother. God: Tell me more about your mother. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-ask-god-any-three-yes-or-no-questions-and-have-them-answered-what-do-you-ask/510750.md?page=3)