On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know about that kind of faith being worthwhile - sounds like > Pascal's Wager >
I've never understood Pascal's Wager ; I can easily understand why a hominid who claims to know God's cellphone number would want me be believe He exists, and most people seem to think that it's obvious that God would want me to believe He exists too, but that's far from obvious to me. I don't think God exists but if He does then it's just as likely that those who believe God exists will be tortured horribly for an INFINITE number of years and only atheists go to heaven. > > wouldn't that be kind of hypocritical? I understand that only sincere > faith and gratitude are acceptable. > I think being correct is far more virtuous than being sincere. You seem to believe that if there is even a speck of rationality behind a belief then it becomes much less exemplary and only a unshakable belief in the utterly ridiculous will get you into heaven. If you're right then heaven is full of dumbbells. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
