And Hells come back to haunt me

[Brian37]

Hi Folks,

I am in a bit of a Predicament, I read yesterday about the pascals wager and so I became a bit skeptic.

Pascal's Wager tends to make skeptics out of reasonable people. Just like any other atrociously stupid idea.

Is this a correct view point - Would reading Exodus add more concrete to the Athiest Mixture or would it weaken it.

My advice- don't read the Bible with an eye towards strengthening or weakening your faith. Just read it. It doesn't take long for any sense of mysticism to fade, and soon you realize you're reading a pretty pedestrian anthology of old legends and myths. Don't look for deep messages from god, and don't try to find inconsistencies and contradictions. Just read it. After a while the sense of awe or dread is gone and you're reading a book. That's all.

The other thing fans of any holy book could do, but don't do, to understand that it is a comic book myth written in an ignorant age is quite simple.

Anytime they see the name of their head character, they can replace it with "Harry Potter", or "Luke Skywalker", and ask themselves if those fantastic claims would still make sense. They don't do it because they are intellectually afraid and or lazy.

Holy books of all religions belong in the fiction section of book stores and libraries.