Which concept has done more good in the world? Karma or The God of Abraham?

[richardhutnik]

BMaker11 said:

dsgrue3 said:

No, an atheist evaluates all claims separately. As opposed to what theists do - know their position is true, THEN find arguments against other ones. That being said, the likelyhood of either belief, while arguably different, is rather close to 0. Pascal's Wager dictates no one pay either claim any mind. 

@bold

Actually, Pascal's Wager states, in a nutshell: believe in God "just in case". If you believe and you're wrong, well...you lose nothing. If you believe and are right, you get everything. If you don't believe and and your right, again, you lose nothing. But if you don't believe and are wrong, you get punished. So you should just believe to cover your own behind.

As if an omniscient being can't see through that thin veil. I think you're thinking of Occam's Razor, which states that the simplest answer is best, and "gods" and "forces" or overly complicated answers, so we shouldn't pay attention to them when more simple answers can answer the question at hand.

Pascal's Wager is pretty useless, because it presumes that belief in something being true, in and of itself, is relevant.  I can go into the book of James in the Bible, and it flat out says that merely believing in one God is pointless, because demons are said to believe that and tremble in fear.

So, pretty much, we have a society now where religous experience is reduced to some mystical weirdness and affirmation of statements being true, with karma overrunning this dogma,but people pressing on.