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Originally Posted by MetheGelfling
I'm wondering, what's the point of being an atheist? If there really is no God, then oh well... we'll cease to exist after we die which will be cool. But if atheists are wrong, isn't it better to be safe than sorry? And too, is it really all that bad to try to abide by a code of morality based on the idea of "love your neighbor as yourself" and believe in the idea that a supreme being is going to hook you up forever in the afterlife? Maybe I'm just a product of all that "hellfire and brimstone" preaching.
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Originally Posted by Seris
But it brings a valid point. Just imagine how much it'd suck to go through life not believing in God, and then when you die, find out there is one and you go to hell.
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Believing in God simply so you don't go to hell is not enough to save your soul. If God is all powerful and all knowing, then he knows that you're simply believing in him to avoid hell. And thus, that's exactly where you'll be going.
That is, Pascal's Wager may make sense, it wouldn't work. Believing not because you fell you have nothing to lose is not a true belief.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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