RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
November 24, 2016 at 1:28 am
(November 23, 2016 at 6:46 pm)The Joker Wrote:(November 23, 2016 at 6:36 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: All I'll say is that when I was having serious doubts, I prayed to God to show me in a way that I would know for sure that he is real. Now some 16 year later nothing has ever happened. So I can safely conclude that either: A. God doesn't want me to believe in him, or B. God doesn't exist.
This is were Pascale Wagar argument kicks in.
Quote:Where are you going to place your bet?If you place it with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything: God, eternity, heaven, infinite gain. "Let us assess the two cases: if you win, you win everything, if you lose, you lose nothing."~Peter Kreeft
Unless you're placing that bet on every god it is nothing more than yammering that makes you feel better about betting on your particular gawd. Pascal was a fool when it came to religious belief for even entertaining the idea that we can choose what we believe and his wager requires us to do exactly that.
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