What if you are wrong?

Answer 1

Yup, nothing like bowing down to a coercive tyrant get your carrot. Sorry, but I have a little thing called self-respect that prevents me from doing this.

Answer 2

Pascal's Wager? It's a loaded bet that is always lost by professing faith in a monotheistic religion. For example, all Christians have already lost the wager because their God requires they believe in no other god or gods.

In other words, any believer who'd pose the question to someone outside of their faith should 1st ask themselves, "what if I'm wrong?"

Answer 3

Pascal's wager:

"If god exists, it's infinitely better to believe, since you get heaven instead of hell for eternity. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter since you're dead anyway. So overall it's better to believe"

This is, of course, false.

Some of the problems with the argument:

* The implied assumption that god may exist (with a 50% probability, no less!)

* The assumption that there is an afterlife with a heaven and hell

* The assumption that the god cares about belief in him/her above all else

* The assumption that if you believe in a god, it will definitely be the same god that actually exists.

* The assumption that you lose nothing if it's false. You have lost a great deal, from time praying to a nonexistent entity (some people pray several hours a day!!!) to morality (your god may ask you to hurt other people) and much more besides.

* The assumption that people can believe in something simply because it benefits them. Would you believe goblins exist for twenty bucks? Why not?

* The assumption that any god won't see through the "believing just to get into heaven" ploy.

For more:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/wager.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html

Answer 4

What if you dig,
Way down deeper than your simple-minded friends
What if you dig?
What if you find
A thousand more unanswered questions inside
That’s all you find

What if you pick apart the logic
And begin to poke the holes
What if the crown of thorns is no more
Then folklore that must be told and retold

But what if you’re wrong?
What if there’s more?
What if there’s hope you never dreamed of hoping for?
What if you jump?
And just close your eyes?
What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?
What if He’s more than enough?
What if it’s love?

Answer 5

I believe that God loved me so much that he sent his only begotten son, born of a virgin. This son died on a cross and 3 days later rose. He now sits at the right hand of the Father crying have mercy on them. There are lots of things I don't know..but this, I know to be the truth because the Holy Spirit within me tells me this... once I didn't know and I asked. Now I know that I know that I know and it is the most wonderful awesome thing that has ever happened to me! (That doesn't even touch on the miraculous changes that have happened in my life!)

Answer 6

If I am wrong and there is no God, then I have lived a life with peace, faith and hope. If there is no after life, then I guess when I die I won't even remember what I believed. But I do have faith that there is a God.

Answer 7

If Im wrong then Im wrong. I dont believe anyone is really wrong.

Answer 8

Have you noticed not one has answered with mmm maybe I could be wrong, they are like children with a black tricycle adamant that no-one is going to paint it red, foolishness.
In the end I am going to get far away from them and cover my face because I don't want to be the one to say I told you so.

Answer 9

Once you understand that keeping the commandments is better than not keeping them, and you look back on what you were as a kid and young adult and what you are now, you will know that keeping the commandments and belief in God is in no way wrong. Then your faith is a knowing faith instead of blind faith.

Answer 10

It's a win-win situation for me. I'm religious. If I'm right... eternal life. If I'm wrong... I die and that's it, or go to hell if some other religion is right. Same result as an atheist.

Answer 11

That would be much the same as if I asked "what if you were wrong?"