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Originally Posted by RadioMaster
If there´s a God and a judgement day and you dont believe, then you´ll go to hell forever till the end of eternity.
But if there´s no God, and you believe, and you´ll die and nothing happens, you believed in a nice little idea through your whole life, that might be wrong, but it wont hurt you, will it?
So, what´s wrong in believing?
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Pascal's Wager. Bound to turn up sooner or later.
Meh.
If there's a god, and on the hypothetical judgement day he asks why I didn't believe in it, I'd like to blatantly rip off
Bertrand Russell: "Not enough evidence."
Speaking of Russell, I like the conclusion of his essay "
Why I Am Not a Christian":
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Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes....A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
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