RE: Atheist or Agnostic?
April 4, 2015 at 3:43 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2015 at 3:47 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 4, 2015 at 3:14 pm)datc Wrote:(April 4, 2015 at 2:54 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Just how would I go about applying Pascal's Wager? Do I believe in ALL gods (even the ones with mutually exclusive doctrines), so I don't offend any of them? Is that what you do, simply out of overabundance of caution? Wouldn't want to piss of Allah and end up in Jahanamm for eternity, would you?
And lets say I decide to believe in your god, simply out of overabundance of caution. Wouldn't your god be able to see through my little "I'll believe just to cover my ass" ploy?
Overabundance of caution seems to suggest that you pick the god who threatens the most punishment for ignoring him and pay proper respects to that god, in whatever they consist.
Allah it is then!
Will I see you in the Mosque? You better be praying 5 times a day.
But seriously.
Why would you want to worship a god that would punish people (the vast majority of his creation, as it turns out) for eternity for the finite crime of disbelieving he exists? Even if that god does exist, no way does it deserve to be worshiped.
How is that god any different than a Mafia Don? "Hey, that's a nice soul you have there. It would be ashamed for it to get roughed up for eternity. If you pay me the right respect, I may see that it is taken care of."
If I had to go to hell under the rule of such a god. I would go with the knowledge that I am more moral than he is.
The best attribute your god has, is that he almost assuredly does not exist.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
