And if you are wrong , eternity is a long time.

[Mister Agenda]

I'm not someone prone to taking unusual risks ;but for me, deciding to believe and accept theistic teachings, which may have beneficial eternal consequences for the acceptee; or to deny these teachings ,which may only offer some vain ,arbitrary and short lived pleasures ,but could lead to an eternity of pain,and misery, is an easy decision to make.

I bet I can phrase it with my own front-loaded assumptions to make believers sound unreasonable for not betting on atheism.

I'm not a gambler ,but the cost benefit ratio is on the side of the believer
who risks nothing but gives up disease ,alcoholism, crime and early death
and could pssibly gain eternal life in a state of bliss.

Risks nothing? The believer risks believing in the wrong God, belonging to the wrong denomination, God getting ticked at being believed in 'to be on the safe side', and if it costs you nothing to be a Christian, you're probably not doing it right. What about time spent in prayer and at church, what about tithes, what about those short-term pleasures...these aren't 'nothing'. And eternal life? Maybe it would be okay for the first trillion trillion years, but what about after a trillion trillion times that? Do I really want to live that long?

If ,you're wrong ,all you gain is some guilty pleasures and lose an eternity.

Well, I get the intellectual integrity of not trying to believe something I don't know is so, and I'm golden if it turns out God is weeding out the gullible.

If I'm right I give up vice and crime and perversions but gain an eternity .
its a no brainer ,except for those with no brains

You know, our lives tend not to be as exciting as believers imagine. We're no more prone to vice and crime and perversions that Christians, arguably less given things like our prison statistics and divorce rates being enviable.

I just finished reading the RULES ..and this could get me banned.. so here's your big chance to get me dumped. start complaining now ..

Although presenting Pascal's hoary old wager would be a reasonable thing to put on the list, I don't think your post breaks any of our rules. That you think it does and posted it anyway after agreeing to follow our rules when you joined says a lot about you. Fortunately, I'm not prone to generalize from you to Christians in general.

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I hope Odin kicks your ass when you show up in Valhalla without your sword.

I have an invincible sword by my side at all times.but thanks for the heads up.

If you have an invincible sword, why are your posts made of fail?