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Edited by Jodoronapo:
12/22/2016 8:21:15 PM
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Care to make a wager
Warning: This post's content may trigger many people.
I have always been a follower of Jesus. And though I know not all of you are, an article recently caught my attention (and if some triggered atheist tries to shoot this down, so be it). Here is a reason to believe in God. Assisted by the probability theory.
Pascal's Wager
"God is, or God is not. Reason cannot decide between the two alternatives.
A Game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up.
You must wager (it is not optional).
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain. God some cannot believe. They should then 'at least learn your inability to believe...' and 'Endeavour then to convince' themselves.
Summary: "He is saying that if you say there is no God, and there is, then you missed an opportunity for a life of eternal happiness. But if you believe in God, and there turns out not to be one, then nothing good or bad happens after death. So the better choice would be to believe in God"
Merry Christmas!
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Okay, yes you don't lose anything if there is no god, but honestly living a godless life sounds a lot more liberating and fun, so if there is no god, then I'd prefer to gain things in this life rather than not lose anything but believe in god when he doesn't exist, since I wouldn't lose anything if I didn't believe anyways. Also, I will gladly refuse a god who bases passage of eternal life simply on your belief in him. All we have is a 2,000 year old (some parts obviously are older than that but you get what I'm saying) book to base this belief off of. And the farther that book falls into the past the more illogical it appears to be. Also, I'd prefer to be godless and kind, because it's the right thing to do, instead of being good out of fear of eternal damnation, because I don't consider that true kindness. I refuse to stand by a god who would toss atheists out of eternity purely because of their beliefs because my atheist friends are some of the best people I know, and why would an omnipotent being be concerned with the beliefs of inferior beings on an inferior and average world in an inferior and average solar system? Why should the beliefs of humans, only alive for a split second on the scale of time for a god, be such a large concern? It almost makes this god seem sadistic or heartless. If you read this far thank you for hearing the whole thing before lashing out, congratulations you're better than most. I hope you were able to see this point of view, I certainly understood your's despite my response
