I was just in a debate with a christian

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You will still feel like a naive twit the very least when you realize what you spent you're life in opposition to was right all along, especially when there was some kind of spiritual development or closeness to God you never developed.

Wow, you're telling me how I'd feel, now? We still haven't met, have we?

I would feel, sir, the same way that I felt when I was able to correct my understanding of many other things in my life; happy that I've finally come that one notch closer to the truth. I would also be proud that I didn't bow to emotionally based arguments, and instead changed my mind only when there was sufficient evidence to justify this.

So even if you don't spend an eternity in hell or whatever it's still a risk only an atheist has. For a believer the only risk is being wrong about some minor detail or other. There are literally billions of people in the world who mistaken as a fact about something of course.

Why is it that you think discovery is a risk?

If you're an atheist it's bad to be wrong and it's bad to be right, though you can only ever be proved to be wrong so wrong is all you can be. If you're 100% guaranteed to be wrong in practice you may as well not believe in it.

This is, by far, the most nonsensical thing you've ever said.

More importantly, as I've repeated to you a couple of times now: I don't think you understand what atheism is.