and have the chance of losing all or nothing?
2007-02-02 10:34:34 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ermm they dont like pascals wager on here babe
God isnt a betting game
do you think God would want us to believe out of fear ?
2007-02-02 10:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by Peace 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This is a really old question. I wonder how many times a day "Pascal's wager" comes up. But I will address it.
First, WHICH God? There are many religions. What if you bet wrong and still end up in hell? That would totally suck.
Second, what the is the point of forcing yourself to believe something you know is not true? Truth is very important to me. I dont really think miracles happen. I dont believe a virgin can give birth. I dont believe someone can turn water into wine, ect.
Third, I do not want to live my life out of fear.
2007-02-02 10:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by sngcanary 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you have just stated is Pascals wager, and it is beyond ridiculous. Why should you believe in a god, knowing that people throughout the ages have been just as convinced as you that their god, whichever one it was, was the true god? Do you not think that Muslims are just as convinced they are right? What if the Christians are wrong? What if you end up being judged in front of the Hindu gods?
Besides, I did not choose to be an atheist, it is my natural state. You could no more convince me a god exists than convince me I have six ears sprouting from my left leg. I would find both impossible to believe.
2007-02-02 10:51:01 · answer #3 · answered by manic.fruit 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to repat answers.
66% of the world rejects the Judeo Christian Bible. 33% of the world is Christian. 50% of those (1 billion) are Catholic. Only a percentage of the othr 1 billion Christians are fundemental and also splitner into groups like baptist, penatcostal, mainline protestant, anglican/episcopal.
So many religions claim to be "the one true path". With non-christians out numbering Christians, with so many diverse Christian sects claiming to be the one true path, shear statistical probability would indicate someone is wrong.
What if *YOU* are wrong? What if you're Baptist and God is Catholic? Or Hindu? or Jewish? Or Native American? Or Pentacostal?
We atheists are taking no bigger risk than any Christians. No matter which ideology you subscribe to, the overwhelming majority of the world disagrees with you.
Think on that for a while.
2007-02-02 10:49:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not the foxhole again.
Look, if your god exists and a person is only paying him lip service but doesn't actually believe, don't you think the god would know that? You can't force belief. Is that all your religion is to you? A belief born out of fear of "what if I'm wrong?"?
How stupid do you take a god for then?
And frankly, for the billionth time I've posted this...
If your god is the kind, loving, and caring god that you bloody Christians like to claim he is, and I'm wrong, then when I die he'll accept an apology. If he throws me into hell anyway, then I know he wasn't worth wasting my life on because everything his bible (and you bloody Christians) preached was all a lie.
Sorry but I won't worship something just so that something can think themselves wonderful.
2007-02-02 10:39:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Why do humans all have a mind of their own if they are meant to blindly follow the words of people who have been dead for generations?
If somehow there really is an almighty God who created humans, then he must value intelligent thought over blind faith. In that case, he would be more likely to reward atheists than theists.
2007-02-02 10:40:30 · answer #6 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Wager again. It's in wikipedia, you can look it up. It's been so thoroughly debunked so many times over so many years that I will point out just one of its many flaws:
What if you choose the wrong god to believe in? You'd feel pretty silly to arrive in heaven and discover that, say, Mumbo Jumbo God of the Congo was in charge all along, wouldn't you?
2007-02-02 10:42:20 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think its because believing in God means doing stuff and being Atheist means being yourself.
2007-02-03 16:29:22 · answer #8 · answered by jetthrustpy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW. I swear to the devil's sweaty balls that this is literally the 1,000,000th time this question was asked. Yahoo's database must be straining under the sheer stupidity.
"princess", please look up "pascal's wager" and especially the MANY ways this argument has shown to be fatally flawed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager#Criticisms_of_Pascal.27s_wager
the fact that each of you seems to invent the wager on your own suggests religion impairs your higher logic functions.
2007-02-02 10:47:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God wouldn't see through that, right?
He wouldn't be able to tell we were believers just to cover our own ***.
If someone came up with that same line and said why not believe in Zeus to save your self from Hades, what would you say? Would you just eb able to believe because someone said to?
2007-02-02 10:41:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's called Pascal's Wager.
2007-02-02 10:38:27 · answer #11 · answered by tchem75 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋