On 4/6/2014 8:34 PM, Samiya Illias wrote:
John, your friend's position sounds almost like Pascal's wager: personally I think its a poor reason to believe, if it can at all be considered belief. I know it would be 'the smart thing to do', 'playing it safe', etc, but I think faith and belief require a major mental investment: its requires an innermost conviction based upon all a person can draw upon. Choosing to be agnostic is also a personal decision... after all there is no compulsion in religion!
Unless you live in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or some other fundamentalist muslim country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy
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