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Don't you think it would be better to?

Live as if there was a God and die to find out that there's not one. Or live as if there wasn't one and die and find out there is a God. Too late

to change your mind then.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Of course not, and i think it would be better if you acquired some logic skills.

    *drink*

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Why Pascal's Wager Is Stupid:

    Fallacy 1: It assumes that there is only one god which can be believed in, the Christian one. This is not true, since there are a plethora of gods that have been believed throughout the millennia. This would have to be applied to each and every one of those gods to be true, and this would clearly be impossible, due to the clashing natures of many of the said gods.

    Fallacy 2: It assumes that simply wagering on [the Christian] God will buy one entrance into Heaven. While this may be so, the Wager does not instill a belief, it instills an appearance of a belief. Since the god in question is presumed to be all-knowing, he would be able to tell a false from a true belief. Therefore, the belief from the Wager would not qualify should belief be the requirement for entrance into Heaven.

    Fallacy 3: It creates a moral dilemma. You, by using this, are sending the most dedicated humanitarians, who just happen to not be Christian, to Hell, while you set a place in Heaven for those mass-murders who happen to be Christian. Since [the Christian] God is supposed to be a loving god, how then could he entertain the embodiment of hatred, yet turn away the embodiment of love?

    Fallacy 4: It ignores too many alternate possibilities - some of which are addressed by existing religions, and some which are not. Some examples: A God could reward on criteria which seem meaningless to us - hair colour, taste in clothes, music etc. or A God might not be concerned with humans at all - the universe could be here for hydrogen for all we know. Or God may even reward those who don't believe.

    Fallacy 5: It assumes any person is overly fearful of death to be worried about it being a conclusion to their life.

    Fallacy 6: It assumes that a belief in God is all that is needed, when many Christians would disagree and would suggest that there are "guidelines" that you should live by (and that God requires you to live by if your belief is sincere). If these guidelines require a change on your part (for example: No sex before marriage, no smoking, denying you are a homosexual, not marrying a non-Christian, etc.), then it could be argued that you have lost something if the Christian God turns out to not exist.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    So basically you are saying Christians are cowards who are too afraid to stand by their own beliefs and convictions, and instead life their lives in fear for the possibility that a supernatural being will torture them after death for not acting as though they believed in him?

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I have not done anything in this life that I would be held accountable now in front of my pears. That is all that counts.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Which god the only logical thing is to believe in all the thousands of them . you know just to be safe

  • 1 decade ago

    I think that like many other things WE try to read into the Bible things that are not there

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    You might as well believe in all gods then. Just in case.

    Better start now.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deities

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It would be better if someone smacked your dumb *** for never having an original thought Blaise

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Amen

  • 1 decade ago

    live as if god exists

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