| coolestguyever said: What do you have to lose by believing in God anyways? Does it make you feel that much better to believe in science and tell Christians they're wrong? |
You’re basically talking about Pascal’s Wager, and you’re right. I potentially have everything to lose from not believing in God and have him turn out to exist, and nothing to lose if I believed and he didn't. So technically, yes I should become religious, but here's the problem...I can go to church, I can pray to God everyday and take part in all the correct rituals, but that still doesn't make me believe any of it. I went to a Catholic school while an atheist and I was no less and atheist when I left, despite doing all the correct procedure. And if God really is all knowing then surely he should know that despite doing all that I still don’t believe because all the evidence points to there not being a God. So he’d still probably ‘cast me into the fiery pits of hell’ anyway, so what’s the point? I might as well live my life free of the shackles of religion and stay firm in my belief that there is almost certainly no God.
