Pascal's wager then? Your odds of being right are as infinitely tiny as ours in that case.
I do not doubt you had a good life, if you claim it so I see no reason to doubt but, there are many who give up everything for their faith. Their whole lives are spent tasting the dirt while they bow to their supposed god. They have lost everything if they are wrong because they were not able to respect the one and only chance they had at living a full life.
These people are of all religions, christians have given their life early, maybe not as publicly or violently as you see muslims in the news but, it happens. They ran the chance at giving up the only thing they ever truly had.
Quick numbers, 22 major religions above 500k followers according to http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
38,000 different denominations of christianity, many of which beleive they are the only ones that will ascend to heaven. (http://christianity.about.com/od/denomin...ntoday.htm)
If your reason for belief if that you think you stand to lose nothing and gain everything your logic is flawed, your odds are as small as anyone else and your faith has nothing to place it as a better choice than any other.
On top of everything you will never know just what you did give up, your life may seem to be quite good but, unless you have actually experienced free life (in that you can have thought for yourself) you cannot understand it and say you know your life was full.
I do not doubt you had a good life, if you claim it so I see no reason to doubt but, there are many who give up everything for their faith. Their whole lives are spent tasting the dirt while they bow to their supposed god. They have lost everything if they are wrong because they were not able to respect the one and only chance they had at living a full life.
These people are of all religions, christians have given their life early, maybe not as publicly or violently as you see muslims in the news but, it happens. They ran the chance at giving up the only thing they ever truly had.
Quick numbers, 22 major religions above 500k followers according to http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
38,000 different denominations of christianity, many of which beleive they are the only ones that will ascend to heaven. (http://christianity.about.com/od/denomin...ntoday.htm)
If your reason for belief if that you think you stand to lose nothing and gain everything your logic is flawed, your odds are as small as anyone else and your faith has nothing to place it as a better choice than any other.
On top of everything you will never know just what you did give up, your life may seem to be quite good but, unless you have actually experienced free life (in that you can have thought for yourself) you cannot understand it and say you know your life was full.
