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How do you guys address the ole "What if you're wrong?" question?
There are 30,000 religions on Earth, and if one of them is right I'm as statistically likely to be wrong as you are.
I think that's the best answer, and there are ten thousand Chritain sects alone, they can not all be right, and most of them claim an exclusive heaven. Heaven must be a very lonely place with so few in it.
I usually tell them, "I am 100% certain you that I am right. You know why? Because you are still here and not with your god. What's keeping YOU from being with your god? Is it doubt or fear or both?"
i don't think about it at all because it is so unlikely. if i run into the tooth fairy then maybe i'll reconsider. but here are some possibilities:
i am wrong, there is a god, and he's a good god. he doesn't care that i didn't believe. he is glad i was a good person.
i am wrong, there is a god, and he's a bad god. i should spend my life worshiping a bad god?
feh, i'll live my life until i die. there are no gods.
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Then I will be very surprised. I'm not holding my breath. BTW if you are wrong, you won't be surprised.
I go where the preponderance of evidence leads. If you have verifiable evidence, provide it and I will incorporate it into my considerations. If what you have outweighs what I already have, it is highly likely that my views will change.
I explain Pascal's Wager. Then I say that deciding "well I guess I'll believe just in case" is a fallacy. You don't just"decide"to believe; you're either convinced or your not. Otherwise you're just going through the motions in some weird attempt to cover your ass, so you're fucked by that good anyway.
Not to mention that since there are innumerable potential deities, the is that you chose the "right one" is remote at best.
If god is all knowing and omnipotent - haha- he-she-it-they understand why I think the way I do.
I'd rather be a crappy atheist than "believer". Less hypocrisy involved, clearer conscience.
I'll do right when I can, try to right what I've wronged and refuse to be a shitty ambassador going to some ornate building to make myself feel better about what a bitch I was about anything.
I reply that when Thor asks me why I didn't believe, I'll tell him that he had no effect on my previous life, but I'll gladly share a beer with him now.
The agnostic position can't logically be wrong, unless there are evidences of a supernatural being.
If this entity exists it is a "shy" god, that hides all his interactions in a perfectly knotted web of randomness, so there is no logical way of knowing what the entity wants, desire or is.
So if the entity asks for faith, then is a game of Russian roulette on what of the thousands of supernatural entities you choose to have faith based on no evidence at all.
Without even start talking about the self contradictory definitions of most of those entities that turns even the question of existence be impossible to ask. So the entity allows itself to be described as a self contradictory entity, so or it is lying, or it did not gave us enough tools to recognize it.
I would say -
If there is a God, it wouldn't be as petty as the one you worship. To think that any omnipotent diety would punish me for me not paying homage is Ludacris.