What kind of a question is this? Are you suggesting that God would prefer a lying espousal of doctrine to a sincere expression of disbelief? Good grief!
2007-06-25 09:43:56
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answered by justjennith 5
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The only problem that I have with this argument is that it suggest that the believer takes no responsibility for their actions or faith. They sort of say, well, if I'm right than all is well. And, if I'm wrong then, no big deal. But that is not quite right. Through out history, look at how people of faith has attempted to suppress any ideas or science and technologies that goes against what "they" believe their god wants --- human cloning and embryonic stem cells come to mind. So, the believer dies and finds out, as if that might be possible, that there isn't any god. Just think about the human suffering that resulted because the believers opposed new knowledge that could have helped many people, because the believer thought, wrongly, that their god would not want it. Do you see what I'm trying to get at here? Right or wrong, we all have some responsibility to others and to ourselves for what we think and do.
2007-06-25 17:54:44
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answered by Bob D1 7
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What risk, being tortured, being reborn as a lower animal, dishonoring my ancestors? Which ridiculous myth am I supposed to be askeered of. They are all equally improbable and for the most part mutually incompatible in practice.
I know from experience that when my brain isn't in gear my consciousness doesn't go anywhere or experience anything. The periods between falling asleep and dreaming demonstrate that. As does the much longer period of time I have no experience of before my consciousness flickered into being in the late 70's.
Saying I'll experience anything after death is like suggesting the programs on a computer will continue to run in 'digital heaven' after the computer is physically destroyed.
2007-06-26 10:45:23
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answered by corvis_9 5
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I agree with the previous submission that 'being on the safe side' can hardly be a good reason to be welcomed in 'heaven'
Plus, let's turn the question around: What if you are wrong and there is no god, and no afterlife? Then you'll have wasted your one and only live grovelling before and fearing a hallucination. Is it worth the risk?
2007-06-25 17:04:44
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answered by travelhun 4
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And what if you're wrong and find yourself in Valhalla being slaughtered every day by a lot of Vikings...?
If I do turn out to be wrong, I'll be having quite a few sharp words with any god who can tolerate such a lot of evil in the world.
One life: live it as well as you can and leave the world in a fit state for those following to appreciate.
2007-06-25 16:57:41
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answered by richard_new_forester 3
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Yep, Pascal's wager. French mathematician Blaise Pascal though this one up a long time ago.
It doesn't make much sense really. Religionists always tell me "you can't know god". So, how can anyone assume that what god really wants is unquestioning devotion? What if god wants each of us to be a thinking instead of believing person?
Why waste your life worrying about something you don't really know anything about? I won't. When I'm dead, that's it. Whatever "I" am will be gone.
2007-06-25 17:17:28
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answered by Joan H 6
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Pascal's Wager. See the article in wikipedia.
*drink*
2007-06-25 18:45:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Ah, the old Pascal's wager...
Kind of an interesting argument. Go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
or
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
for a more in depth look at this.
2007-06-25 16:54:14
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answered by Cristina 1
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I believe in God, but I'm not going to force people to believe in Him if they don't want to. I also can't see God condeming an Athiest to hell if they were a good person.
2007-06-25 16:44:20
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answered by blue_seal07 3
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Yes. I refuse to grovel in fear *just in case* there is a God. I live by my convictions and don't cave for fear of punishment in a fictitious afterlife.
2007-06-25 16:42:44
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answered by Gregory Casamento 1
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