RE: Which is more attractive? love or death?
October 22, 2016 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2016 at 11:19 am by Longhorn.)
(October 22, 2016 at 11:05 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(October 21, 2016 at 5:35 pm)Vic Wrote: Well, the point is, your question is very flawed. It's basically Pascal's Wager. Even if you consider this dichotomy legitimate... what afterlife exactly would it be? What if Islam turned out to be right about it... then you're not prepared for it, even though you believed in an afterlife, but the wrong one. That's why the question is pointless. You can use it to argue for any religion's version of 'life after death'. You can't possibly be eligible for all of them.
To answer it personally though - I think it's better to act according to all available data. And none of what I've seen has convinced me that an afterlife is possible or plausible. So I won't buy into any version of it 'just in case'. If you've come to different conclusions, hey, none of my business is it?
There is a reason I stated "I believe in God, not religion" under religious views.
Religion is a man-made construct, so while Islam is not the correct way, neither is organized Christianity. One must meet God personally, no religion can help you in that regard.
Which, won't you agree, is also a specific version of a religious claim. A more inclusive one... but still lacking advantage over any other such claim. This doesn't really solve the conundrum, because the question is equally as valid for your belief as it is for any other. Personally I'd pick your God over the islamic God or the Jewish God. But they are equal when considering the question.