Pascal's Wager

[Ace Otana]

What if atheists ended up in heaven and theists ended up in hell?
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You ask a lot of questions Ace.

I'm take it that you're joking. I just wanted to say that I'm not here to debate anybody. I have no delusions that anything that can be posted by a theist to an atheist could do anything other than invoke an explanation an explanation from the atheist as to why the theist is wrong. A similar thing would happen if an atheist started posting at a theist discussion forum. I simply don't wish to go to an atheist discussion forum and try to convince anybody that God exists. That would be a terrible waste of time.

I'm here because I'm curious as to how atheists view the world and how they choose what counts as knowledge. As such I may ask questions regarding the atheist views of epistemology.

I fully understand.
Debates can easily start up and I being very eager and ready for one.

Anyway I can answer some of your questions here and now.

Now I'm the kind of person who needs to know not believe. I can't stand not knowing. I don't like guessing and so absalute knowledge is needed to satisfy my needs to understand my surroundings. I did give religion a chance but they failed to entertain my needs for knowledge. Everything about religion is just to simplistic, To simple and lacks allot of data. huge missing gaps. Every time I question those gaps I'm simply told not to question. Which goes against everything that I am. I want to know and to do that IS to question.

My main objective is to learn through question. Data is important to me, Religion cannot give me the data that I need. Religion evades my questions and leave those gaps unfilled. So I fill in those gaps with science and what I find is the complete opposite to religious claims. Like the age of the earth being 4.5 billion years old instead of 10 thousand. They use carbon dating and other ways to find such data and they provided me with the answers for which was an impossibility for religion.

What I've found in reason, logic and science opened my eyes to a new reality. A reality where there is no god, that every religion is just a lie. Nothing supports religious claims but everything supports scientific findings. It's like an arrow pointing towards science and telling me what side is the right one. Religion has a terrible past and nothing but a belief with huge gaps in it. Science is a process of learning and understanding and never evades questions. Personally I think I can easily call anyone arrogant if they think they know it all. The bible is just stories to me.
God is just an imagination.

This is why I'm an atheist pete. I lust for knowledge, I lust for data and answers not gaps and evasions to my questions. not to be told to not question.

It was my questioning that removed all chance of belief in god. Since my questions was not being answered and only being attacked.

The biggest reason on why I'm an atheist - Lack of evidence for the existance of god, devil, afterlife.