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Can you justify your use of the word "should" in that statement, without resorting to special pleading and/or Pascal's Wager? What happens if I don't believe in this god of which you speak?

What bet could possibly be relevant to the propriety of believing what is true? It's right to believe what’s true just because it's true, not because of any bet.

downbeatplumb made a mistake. He thought that all deities are fictional. Fine; people make mistakes. But there is one Deity that’s real. So the proposition there is no God is false and its opposite is true. It should be obvious that you should believe that which is true.

If such a good really exists, then why must I believe that it exists?
Why can't I come to know it from my own unbiased research?
I mean...I can find out what kind of geometry our planet has from my own unbiased research... (board a plane and go around the planet, or guess roughly like the ancient Egyptians did, based on the visible height of a particular tower with increasing distance from it) why can't I apply the same principle to your god?

Ahh yes, to me, your god is just like any other god...