To all the atheists. What if you're wrong?

i don't really care to be honest, since there's nothing to lose.

You on the other hand have everything to lose from being wrong.

What if I am? I'll have lived my life the way I saw most appropriate.

Could you possibly be more specific?

What if I'm wrong and deists are right? Theists are right? Polytheists are right?

Any type of religion or just spirituality in general?

Philosophically within atheism? As in a humanist versus angsty atheist scenario?

Am I wrong ever?

Definitely.

No one is ever accurate or precise or concise or perceptive 100% of the time.

But why are you asking me? Why aren't you asking yourself? Perhaps you have, but please do not assume that people are generally too ignorant to ask themselves if their ideologies and unprovable opinions hold up to their personal logic system. The average person does. The insightful person focuses his energy on questioning themselves. Because those are where the questioning has the most impact. You can't and probably never will change people's opinions. But you can inspire them to think.

Technically, it's better to be a skeptical agnostic atheist, than just an atheist.

Simply because one should hold integrity in the idea of skepticism and not directly deny anything based on feelings or faith.

So as an agnostic atheist, what if I'm wrong?

Well, it would really depend on what I'm wrong about, for instance, If I was wrong about the Roman pantheon, I guess I'm going into the river Styx for eternity.

Or if I'm wrong about Hinduism, I guess I'll be reincarnated into something stupid, like a dung beetle.

If I'm wrong about Shinto, then I guess I never had a soul in the first place.

If I was wrong about the Egyptian gods, I guess my heart would have to be weighed by Anubis and I would either die by being consumed by Ammut or if light, pass into a pleasant afterlife.

But what about the monotheistic beliefs?

If the Judeism was right, then it would depend on how good or bad I was. So it doesn't have much to do with faith, as much as it has to do with a person. There is no hell, but Gehenna, in which your soul is punished and purified for about a year at max. Which then you go to heaven either way.

With Christianity, there are a wide variety of contradictory beliefs. Some sects of Christianity even claim that only people of said sect go to heaven, and every one else, (even other Christians) burn in hell. Some sects of Christianity are very open, and believe anyone who does good and rejects evil, goes to heaven. Others believe that Faith is more important that good deeds and therefore only faithful go to heaven, while all those who did not have faith, but did good deeds will burn tortuously in eternal hell fire forever.

Islam, from what I understand, there are 3 ways to win favor with Allah and get into heaven. One is to be a believer, two is to believe in a judgment day, and three is to not be evil and do good deeds.

Also there are infinitely many other cults, religions and personal beliefs, which have just as much evidence to be true as many of the main world religions. So what if I'm wrong?

Well, there is an infinite number of unverifiable possibilities if I'm wrong.

Equally, any of those faiths above could be right, because they have the same amount of evidence.

As well as the possibility we are all wrong and something even more random is the reality after death.

But those are such low possibility, it's just better to live your life and not be swayed by the rituals and fears of obvious hogwash. Sure, I believe in doing good deeds for no reward. But I don't have any evidence, so I highly highly doubt any supernatural deity is watching or caring whether I do them.

The same question could be asked to you. You could be wrong about God existing just as much as I could be wrong about God not existing. There isn't much proof for either sides. Religion is based on faith and that's why people believe The Bible, The Torrah, The Qur'an do have Gods messengers and answers. There is no proof that all this happened but people believe it because of faith.

And if you have the right to believe God exists why can't I believe he isn't there? I accept people do believe in God and I'm not knocking people for it. And the same should go for everybody. Everybody needs to accept everybody's views on religion. It's unrealistic, an idealistic idea, but you need to at least try. I know it won't happen but you need to understand everybody has their reason for believing or not believing god. And you can't ask the question what if you're wrong because nobody k ows the answer

Then atheists will be in company with most if not all theists as there are so many competing versions of what they believe in, none of which may be correct either. Since Kant showed that metaphysical issues of that nature can never be proved but only believed, then we are all taking a shot in the dark and may or may not find out whether we hit anything, Good luck, if there is such a thing.

Hello.

I am an atheist, I do not mind about others opnions on there religion. Personally I beleive there was once a man called God who people looked up too and started making up stories about him. I beleive the world was created by the Big Bang as science is a big thing of mine. If all these stories about God were true I still wouldn't mind, just carry on like normal.

I, an atheist, KNOW that I am incorrect, in that I have insufficient data and comprehension to construct a meaningful theory along spiritual or creation based lines.

I am happy with this, because I am slightly fatalistic (should have been Chinese I guess).

Being 'wrong' - that is - not having correct knowledge - means that when a Hindu God turns out to be true I will be forgiven, as human, frail and without the Knowledge. Alternatively, is Science turns out to be true, whatever I believe my atoms will return to the star dust that they are. If the God of the Jews turns out to be real, He is listed as a merciful God and probably will forgive a gentile sinner because (apparently) he let his only Son be crucified in the flesh to save all us sinners.

So I am thoroughly hedged on all bets. I feel smug.

It doesn't matter if I'm wrong. I'm still justified in my beliefs (or lack of a belief).

A long time ago, when everyone thought the world was flat, if someone came along and said "GUYS GUYS!! THE WORLD IS SPHERICAL!!" but had no proof or reasons at all to why it was a sphere, then the people who think it's flat are still justified in believing that it is flat, it doesn't matter that the people who thought it was flat were wrong and he was right. They had no reason to believe it was round and believing so would be crazy! Even if it is true!

The point I'm trying to make is it doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong, the only thing that matters is that I'm justified in my beliefs, I have rational reasons as to why I am not religious.

What do you mean "what if". Everybody is wrong. The Christians are wrong, the Jews are wrong, the Hindus are wrong, the Buddhists are wrong (although good chance they are less wrong then most), the Pharaohs were wrong, all are pretty much wrong. Of course, this won't stop any of them from believing, having faith, knowing "they" are right. I mean really, with dozens of religions, one is right. I don't think so.

They are. They are just too stubborn, stupid, or idiotic to believe. I can say I don't believe in Pluto just because I never have seen it in person. Heck I have never seen your parents, so I don't believe you have parents. See how stupid that sounds. I never seen a bedbug I don't believe in them either. I wasn't there when Christopher Columbus discovered America. So I don't believe in Columbus. I have never seen my brain I guess since I never saw my brain I don't have one. I had never seen an Atom or a nucleus or a proton they must not exist. Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there people are just stupid

But what if I'm right?

What if we are all wrong?

What if we are all right?

Wait, how can that be, you ask?

Well, I ask, how do you even know that I am a mere mortal like you, and not a robot with no thoughts of my own?

Hell, how do I know that you are a person with his/her own thoughts and not a mere robot believing only what is programmed into you?