Would you like to live in a world without Christians, Jews and Muslims?

[Himster]

You know what, there were times when I thought of it. But then I thought there's nothing wrong in believing there is God in life even if it turns out after we died nothing happened, rather than not believing during our life time and then after we died, there is God.

By then it's too late. Like an insurance, it's better to have it even if we don't need it rather than need it but we don't have it.

That's just Pascals wager. There is no way to conclude which God/insurance agency is real or a scam. Pascal's wager only makes sense if you consider your time or intellectual integrity worthless, it is a massive presumption, a selling of one's finite time and more importantly one's intellectual integrity; with a tiny-infinitesimal statistical chance of randomly picking the right God or religion. Throwing away a good portion of the two most valuable things a human can possess for something as petty as insurance.

If there is a God and he is good; he will reward those who have lived good lives. If God is not good he will punish people based on some other random arbitrary reason, and therefore was never worth worshiping. The gamble with your intellectual integrity and incredibly valuable time is not necessary.

[Sir Adrian]

You are taking things a bit to the extreme. Most religions out there have no punishment for the act of following another religion and even those who see disbelief as a sin provide some form of reward in the afterlife for virtuous unbelievers. Moreover plenty of religions out there worship the same being and follow roughly similar ideas: stealing and murder are bad, helping those in need is good, etc. Even Hindus believe in a supreme god which created everything including the gods of their pantheon.

[AngryTitusPullo]

That's just Pascals wager. There is no way to conclude which God/insurance agency is real or a scam. Pascal's wager only makes sense if you consider your time or intellectual integrity worthless, it is a massive presumption, a selling of one's finite time and more importantly one's intellectual integrity; with a tiny-infinitesimal statistical chance of randomly picking the right God or religion. Throwing away a good portion of the two most valuable things a human can possess for something as petty as insurance.

If there is a God and he is good; he will reward those who have lived good lives. If God is not good he will punish people based on some other random arbitrary reason, and therefore was never worth worshiping. The gamble with your intellectual integrity and incredibly valuable time is not necessary.

Doesn't matter who's wager. Hey, you shouldn't worry anyway because if I'm wrong then good for both of us since nothing will happpen afterwards. However I'm not one who wants to take chances.