Theists: Hitchens Wager

[chimp3]

---

I don't see any reason to die or kill for atheism. I don't see how this precludes any other psycho atheist from doing so.

The wager, though, is what an atheist can't do that a theist can.  Dying (por killing, or killing and dying) for a particular belief in god is something that no atheist could do.  They don't possess that belief.  We commonly consider that to be an instance of immorality, martrydom as evil, because it's so commonly leveraged to what we might consider evil ends. 

It's a difficult question to answer, I've spent some time thinking about it, from time to time.  Like a puzzle, you just want to crack it and offer some credible answer.  So, consider the counterfactual.  If, in some circumstance, that sort of martyrdom was a morally correct (dare I say righteous) act...then wouldn't this by definition be a moral act that an atheist would be incapable of doing?

I am confused! However, if a freethinker would fight and die for the rights of others to believe.....