Possibly an Atheist's Thought?

[Rampant.A.I.]

Any omniscient God who would damn his children to eternal torture for using the rational minds they were created with, knowing they would question everything, is not worthy of worship.

If there is a God, and you honestly believe he only saves those who blindly believe, and damns those who don't blind themselves, I honestly feel sorry for you.

The only true expression of faith comes from a willingness to question everything, and decide if it's rational to still believe.

If you have irrational beliefs, you don't have faith.

[Elskidor]

What if there is a god? What does that mean anyway? Why would that change a thing for me? I would still be dead. It changes nothing. I don't understand your concerns, my man.

[Bob Kelso]

But what if there really is a God? What if indeed when I die I have consciousness? What if I see God? What if I am wrong? What if God exists?

Even if you feel you are 99.99% sure there is no God, are you willing to risk your eternal destiny if that .01% chance it may be true?

But what if there really is a Quetzalcoatl? What if indeed when I die I have consciousness? What if I see Quetzalcoatl? What if I am wrong? What if Quetzalcoatl exists?

Even if you feel you are 99.99% sure there is no Quetzalcoatl, are you willing to risk your eternal destiny if that .01% chance it may be true?

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Now, Rev, take this name change and copy/paste it a few thousand times and input the names of every god that has ever been posited by man to exist. Do you see why we laugh at this feeble attempt now?

[Sinbad]

It is Sunday morning. Saturday is gone, I can't get that back. That means one less day of existence. My finite life just got a day shorter. My life is one week shorter that last Sunday. Each day just keeps zipping by.

You are almost wishing your life away. There is so much to live for Rev

[downbeatplumb]

Thinking about it. Its like atheists get an extra day off a week because we don't waste Sundays on useless fawning to an impossible magic man.
Score.

[Losty]

Absofuckinglutely.

I could weep over you.

You could but that would be super creepy stalker behavior and he'd probably call the police.

[Zen Badger]

It is Sunday morning. Saturday is gone, I can't get that back. That means one less day of existence. My finite life just got a day shorter. My life is one week shorter that last Sunday. Each day just keeps zipping by. I thought I knew so much, there is so much more to learn. Where has my life gone? Where did the time go, the years, the decades? This world can be so disappointing and difficult, then when that fateful day comes, that's it. I mean, that's the end, no more me, gone forever. Into the ground I go, no more life, just a memory. In a couple of generations I probably won't even be remembered. Its kinda sad.

But what if there really is a God? What if indeed when I die I have consciousness? What if I see God? What if I am wrong? What if God exists?

Even if you feel you are 99.99% sure there is no God, are you willing to risk your eternal destiny if that .01% chance it may be true?

Your god must have some serious self esteem issues if he so desperately craves our constant worship.

You sure you're not praying to Kim Jong Il by mistake?

[Elskidor]

Rev might be repetitive and not too good at getting his point across, but I think I kinda like reading his wonky logic. It's a little entertaining. Now don't go getting yourself perma banned, and don't go having a heart attack worrying about the fate of Atheists while you're gone, Rev!

[Faith No More]

I hope while you're on mandatory vacation, Rev., you pause to truly reflect on the quality of your arguments. I assume that you've been bringing your "A" game, and if that consists of Pascal's wager and "no transitional fossils," you should just save your breath. It's the same regurgitated crap we've seen hundreds of times here, and the more unthinking people like yourself puke it up here, the less convincing it gets.

Just relax and enjoy the forums. Apologetics are weak at best, so there's no need to waste your time using their worst arguments. No one has ever been convinced by this tripe, and if you don't try to come back with something much better, that will show that this is more about a self-serving show than actual conversion.

[Cyberman]

This was an idiotic wager when Pascal uttered it, and it is an idiotic wager now. Hell, Marcus Aurelius solved this one 15 centuries before Pascal was even a gleam in the milkman's eye.

Boru

My understanding of it is that Pascal was trolling when he came up with this. He'd most likely have had it published in whatever passed for Private Eye or The Onion in his day. That one-watts find it even the slightest compelling only makes the satire funnier.