If you're right, when I die, I rot in the ground and lose nothing. But if I'm right, you BURN for eternity and lose everything!
What do you say about that?
2006-09-22 20:06:51 · 23 answers · asked by Spookshow Baby 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's a gamble I wouldn't want to take.
2006-09-22 20:07:34 · update #1
Are you drunk?
The key factor you omit is not only are there thousands of Gods from which to choose, most of them have followers claiming different rules on how to attain this paradise you seek.
How do you know you chose the right one?
2006-09-22 20:10:04 · answer #1 · answered by Left the building 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Pascals wager was debunked years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_wager#Criticisms_of_Pascal.27s_wager
You could just choose to believe that you are going to win a billion dollars...i mean it is possible right?...Why don't you just believe it and gear your life around that? What do you got to lose?
Also, your wager gets turned right around on you, if you choose to follow Christianity then what if Islam is the true religion?
There is a lot to be lost by believing in religion. Just by believing in an afterlife you cheapen this life. If you think you are going to live forever then this life loses value. Brevity increases value and if life is eternal then it is cheap. If you knew you only had three days to live, you would get everything you possibly could get done and cherish every moment of it wouldn't you? Well us atheists live our entire lives that way.
Religions divide us, and retards our scientific and moral progress as a species. I could go on and on about the problems religion causes our society, but if you want to know more just pick up your newspaper.
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." Richard Dawkins - Britain's leading intellectual and professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University
2006-09-23 03:10:39 · answer #2 · answered by AiW 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your split personality, as seen by reading your About Me, still confuses... Seriously, find yourself.
To answer, I guess...
Really I never really cared about "rotting in the ground," I looked at it in the sense of still always getting to be a part of this world. But really I don't put much thought into it anymore...sure an 'afterlife' is a nice idea, and who knows maybe some form of energy or something survives for a while, but it's slim at best....and really, I don't care all that much either way since there is no hell.
2006-09-23 03:17:05 · answer #3 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you cant really prove that we exist beyond a shadow of a doubt. I mean, who is to say that this is all not just a dream in the mind of someone or something else? Can you prove that this is not the "Matrix" or something like it? Have you never woken up from a dream that you were convinced was real. What if our percieved death in this world is actually us waking up in another world? Is that the after life? Or is that the begining of real life? When is the exact moment that bread becomes toast?
2006-09-23 03:32:09 · answer #4 · answered by lokimadhouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this a general observation you have made? Having faith in something does not make it true. It is only an exaggeration of fact.
2006-09-23 03:19:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many other Gods talk to you? There are no other gods.
There is only one and his name is I AM.
And his son is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only way to the Father.
There is only one way you will ever know the truth.
Ask Jesus to be your Lord and Saviour and that you are ready to turn your life over to him. If you really mean it then you will know.
2006-09-23 03:19:39 · answer #6 · answered by Hoot_J4A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your assumption of buring in hell is as childish as their of rotting in the ground
Wake up...
2006-09-23 03:16:48 · answer #7 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so whats the gamble we no the is no hell and no after life
2006-09-23 06:41:32 · answer #8 · answered by andrew w 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That scares me just about as much as being told that I'm on Santa's Naughty list!! ;0)
2006-09-23 03:10:32 · answer #9 · answered by ~ Sara ~ 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Way to show love in the name of Jesus! Way to love the sinners, the shunned, and the outcast! Way to be a prophet of doom...geez. I could be wrong, but it's just my experience that people respond better to love and the message of hope that the gospels bring (because it's not about hell, but about heaven and the sacrafice that Christ made...) than people do to a message of doom. jesus gave messages of hope, not doom. he was honest about the doom, but he didn't stand on a mountain and tell about doom.
2006-09-23 03:10:31 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋