(May 29, 2014 at 6:41 pm)LostLocke Wrote:(May 29, 2014 at 5:39 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: I'm not a gambler ,but the cost benefit ratio is on the side of the believerWow. That first premise implies that all atheists are disease-ridden crime-loving alcoholics, while no believers are. That's easily falsifiable.
who risks nothing but gives up disease ,alcoholism, crime and early death
and could pssibly gain eternal life in a state of bliss.
Second, you also imply that your god is too stupid to tell the difference between someone who is following what he says to do because that person honestly believes that's the right thing to do, and a person who is doing it "just in case" it's the right thing to do.
Maybe when Pascal's wager comes up, it'll be you who fails because god will condemn you for thinking he's an idiot.
Not really, God may reward and respect the cautious and prudent over the self assured ,overly confident fool.