Benevolent Creator God?

[The Grand Nudger]

As meaningless as you presenting pascals wager, apparently.  If you don't need to check other religions, I don't need to check them either.

In the end, it's just an exercise in whether or not you can manage to think clearly - since neither of us is in any danger of hell.

That's not really pascal's wager. Back to my example of 50 doors, would you mindlessly keep checking doors after you stumble upon the one with the prize?

Yes, you really did try pascals wager, and it would be sad - except that every one of you gets around to it eventually.  

As I said, we've both stumbled on the door, apparently, so it's no issue for either of us.

There is clearly an asymmetry between a theist and a non-theist. The theist picked an answer (valid or not) and went with it, the non-theist is still looking for possible answers. This asymmetry exists in more mundane contexts: if you want to go out, you won't necessarily pick the best clothes or mindlessly try all your closet after you wore something, the important thing is not to go out naked..

Sure, plenty of assymetry - but not in whether or not it would be rational to pick some door for fear of getting tortured by someone else's imaginary friend.  None of us are worried about that.  Not a theist, not an atheist.  We're precisely equal in this regard both in perception and in mere reality.


The only asymetry, here, is that some theists are the kind of people who makes threats no one cares about through their imaginary friend.

Go fuck yourself. It may be common to have you ghouls pop in here and threaten other people in whatever way strikes your fancy - but imma point it out every single time. There's no god to worry about, only you, and you're an asshole. That's easily the biggest issue with abrahamics. Something about your silly religion makes you think that it would be okay to pull this shit -and- that you're being virtuous for doing it.