(March 3, 2013 at 12:16 pm)Question Mark Wrote:(March 3, 2013 at 12:01 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I also want to put another perspective to this.
From agnostic perspective, it can very well be there is a God/Creator/Lord, but that he hasn't given us knowledge of his existence. If this is true, and we are to be honest to ourselves, then it would prefer we don't believe in him unless one day we come to realize he must exist.
In this instance, agnostics that withhold belief, are being honest to themselves. Therefore they are doing something more noble then tricking yourself into following a religion, because, there is possibly consequence if you don't.
I wouldn't wager with my honor.
A little deistic, but what if we were created by a god, and that god really didn't want anything to do with us, and just sort of went away? Didn't set up a heaven or hell, just this plane of existence, and then just left to make new ones?
As an amateur artist, I can sympathise with that kind of god.
Sure...but we are just talking possibilities here. The OP is arguing statistics, but he left out the possibility that there is a Creator that prefers we don't believe in him if it doesn't seem like he exists and will honor those who don't believe simply because they are being honest to themselves (as far as this issue is concerned).