RE: Not Wanting to be an Atheist
January 12, 2011 at 7:42 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2011 at 7:45 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Pascal's wager is an absolutely terrible argument.( I think it's even worse than the Ontological argument for God's existence. Since, although the Ontological argument makes no sense whatsoever and is a fucking terrible argument, at least it tries to deal with the matter of God's existence rather than making a completely pointless wager).
Why is it so terrible? Well, because you're just as (un)likely to go to hell if you're a theist and just as (un)likely to go to heaven if you're an atheist. Because there's absolutely no reason whatsoever that anything (supernatural) in the Bible has any merit, so there's no reason to believe that being a Christian would make you more likely to go to heaven, or being an atheist would make you more likely to go to hell.
Why is it so terrible? Well, because you're just as (un)likely to go to hell if you're a theist and just as (un)likely to go to heaven if you're an atheist. Because there's absolutely no reason whatsoever that anything (supernatural) in the Bible has any merit, so there's no reason to believe that being a Christian would make you more likely to go to heaven, or being an atheist would make you more likely to go to hell.
