How many believe :
Its better to live good honest life believing in God and finding out God doesn´t exist, than to live dangeriouly, on the edge and not believing in God and finding out he does exist?
Personally, because I spent four years as a correctional officer, I would choose the honest life believing in God. Prison life just ain´t for me.
2007-09-06 09:27:26 · 11 answers · asked by FarmerCec 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am talking about God of Heaven. Believing in Jesus.
and i am not saying all non believers are bad, but they sure do make a lot of cigaretts out of the pages of the Bible.
I do know there is good and bad people in every kind of belief. even the non believers, I didn´t mean to offend all the non believers.
2007-09-06 09:43:41 · update #1
Thank you all, I have finally recieved an answer i was looking for, for a long time.
and as for the christians in prison, hahahahahahahah LMAO!!!
way too many false believers in prison. they only go to get bibles to make thier cigaretts. they have told me bibles make the best cigarret papers.
2007-09-06 09:49:40 · update #2
This has been asked before so many times throughout the ages, it has become known as Pascal's wager (see reference below).
The problem with this kind of thinking is:
1) If you believe in the wrong god, you might end up in a worse place than if you believed in no god, if this god happened to exist
2) If this god happened to exist, would this god reward you for choosing to believe in it just to escape punishment? If this god can be so easily "gamed", is this god really worthy of belief?
3) It is always better to believe in truth rather than some fiction generated by fear.
2007-09-06 09:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by CC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why only two options? Can't you imagine that someone could be a good honest person AND not believe in god?
Why does not believing in god have to mean that a person lives a bad life?
I am here to tell you, I am an atheist, and I am a good honest person. I do not live a "dangerous on the edge" life (whatever that means).
Broaden you mind a little bit to include more than choice A or B.
2007-09-06 09:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by atheist 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here's a little factoid that's been floating around this site for a few weeks:
Roughly 75% of the US population are Christians (including Catholics) and approximately 75% of federal prisoners are also Christians. Atheists comprise about 10% of America's population and, according to the US Bureau of Prisons make up only 0.2% of the prison population. It seems that atheists are roughly fifty times less likely than Christians to wind up in federal prison.
As for me, I choose to live an honest, ethical and moral life -- uncorrupted by the impossible assertions of deluded people who can't tell the difference between their own overactive imagination and objective reality. I hypothesize that people who deliberately reject unsubstantiated superstition are inherently more honest than those willingly embrace irrational explanations which lead directly to erroneous conclusions.
Your question contains the unstated assumption that believers are more moral than non-believers. This is simply false. It has been proved time and again, in a wide variety of civilizations that moral behavior is inversely correlated to religiosity. Need another example? Consider the abominable behavior of the Catholic clergy during their numerous Inquisitions. ...or the Aztec preisthood, who removed the beating hearts of their sacrificial victims and claimed it was necessary to insure the Sun would rise the next day. ...hardly moral behavior.
2007-09-06 10:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, Pascal's Wager - the man that gave science so much gave religion something so stupid.
Not all atheists are in prison and we don't live on the edge; we just live this life like its our only shot, because it is to us.
I'd be a lot more horrified to follow rules I may disagree with, not make the most of this life ... then find out I *don't* get to go anywhere special, I've just wasted my life, my 1m on a 50, 000km line.
2007-09-06 09:42:58 · answer #4 · answered by Devolution 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you were a corrections officer, you would know that atheists are highly underrepresented in prison populations. Being honest and good and believing in God are separate issues.
Your argument is a false dichotomy and borders on turning to Pascal's Wager. By using your false dichotomy, your dishonest argument put you on the wrong side of your position.
2007-09-06 09:40:08 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Wager is hooey. And the majority of the prison population in the U.S. is made up of Christians, so apparently not all Christians are averse to prison life.
2007-09-06 09:36:35 · answer #6 · answered by /\v/\TARD 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Or, you could disbelieve in god and live a decent, moral life. Ever think of that?
Otherwise we're heading dangerously close to the edge of Pascal's Wager territory again...
2007-09-06 09:35:39 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
but then which God ?
you dont want to feel the wrath of thors hammer do you ?
hunnie this Pascals wager doesnt go down well here
just a piece of advice for you
it is better to live a good life with or without God..... just live a good life
2007-09-06 09:35:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's called Pascal's wager, and it's very bad logic, and produces an insincere faith.
Why not just live a good honest life period?
2007-09-06 10:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey "diogenes" do you also consider the murdering, torturing "atheist" leaders of North Korea and China to be "moral" ?
2007-09-06 18:06:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋