Does God exist? (William Lane Craig vs Peter Atkins debate) (23 Viewers)
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But you see, it is very easy to see that you have a really small dick and that what you believe in is wrong by just pulling down your pants. Proving whether God exists or not is much much more complicated broski. And the way i see this, there is not a single way in which you can prove whether God exists or not. We will all just have to wait and see. But let me tell you this, if God does not exist, the thats it, believer and non-believers will just die and parish, turn into dust and that will be the end of it. But, if by any chance God does exist, then guess which people will be the happy ones, and which people will feel like real donkeys.........So you see, believers have nothing to loose, the worst thing that can happen to them is to turn out that they have lived a life filled with lies and a belief in something that didnt exist, but that wont matter when they are dead, so who cares, while non-believers may come to regret ever being born if it turns out the other way around........
What you're describing is called Pascal's Wager. While it is ok to think like that, there is one major flaw: what if you're believing in the wrong god? Normally, if someone says "there is a god", people would be inclined to think that the god that THEY believe in exists. But they'll never think about the 1000 other gods that other people believe or believed in. What if the real god is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who will banish believers of all other gods to hell?
What you're suggesting we do is to gamble on the possibility that there is a god. If so, then you need to gamble on every god that has ever been written about. Cos all of them can be true.
What you're suggesting we do is to gamble on the possibility that there is a god. If so, then you need to gamble on every god that has ever been written about. Cos all of them can be true.
Oh course believers have something to lose. If you, as a believer, follow rules of a certain religion. Perhaps a situation will come along where the rules of your religion prohibit you from doing something you feel like, and you don't do it because you think there is some kingdom waiting for you after you finish this life - you are missing out. So if God isn't real, and we all just perish - the believer will certainly have lost something in the only existence he will ever experience.
Everything becomes explained. Not that religious people would ever agree with it, which is why I said months ago that religion will always survive in some form, it'll just evolve over the next several thousand years (assuming the human race survives) the same as it has over the last few thousand years. If you have an organised belief system people will follow it in large numbers. Some believe in ghosts, fairies, greys and elves. Faith is a strong natural human trait.