If I had $1 for every time God bailed me out...

If I had $1 for every time God bailed me out..

I just believe that it's nice to think of an all powerful being that is watching you, because it sets a guideline on how to live your life. Want to go to heaven? (which may or may not exist) Be good. (sounds nice right? Cool, i'll be the best person i can.) Want to go to a place of eternal suffering and torment? (which may or may not exist). Errm No thanks (Okay, so i won't be bad.)

Pretty easy to live a good life when you're scared of being tormented and tortured right?
 
If I had $1 for every time God bailed me out..

DivineChaos97 said:
I just believe that it's nice to think of an all powerful being that is watching you, because it sets a guideline on how to live your life. Want to go to heaven? (which may or may not exist) Be good. (sounds nice right? Cool, i'll be the best person i can.) Want to go to a place of eternal suffering and torment? (which may or may not exist). Errm No thanks (Okay, so i won't be bad.)

Pretty easy to live a good life when you're scared of being tormented and tortured right?
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Stupid thinking like this is why there is so much prejudice in the world. Plus Blackdragon is right, morality is subjective.
 
If I had $1 for every time God bailed me out..

DivineChaos97 said:
I just believe that it's nice to think of an all powerful being that is watching you, because it sets a guideline on how to live your life. Want to go to heaven? (which may or may not exist) Be good. (sounds nice right? Cool, i'll be the best person i can.) Want to go to a place of eternal suffering and torment? (which may or may not exist). Errm No thanks (Okay, so i won't be bad.)

Pretty easy to live a good life when you're scared of being tormented and tortured right?
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That's a short version of Pascal's Wager, which basically states that believing in a God leads to infinite reward if correct, and finite loss (non existence) if wrong. It then states that you are given infinite punishment if you don't believe and are wrong (hell) but only finite reward if you are right. Therefore, it is the logical thing to say you believe in God, even if you have reservations about it.

The reason it's flawed is that it makes the assumption that there is only one God that is correct. What if you spend your life believing in Christianity only to find Allah on the other side? How about Vishnu or Zeus? There are thousands of gods in existence, so you have a statistically poor chance in picking the "right" god.

Even if you picked the right God, wouldn't he see through your dishonest actions of believing only because you wanted a reward? If he's truly omniscient, he would have foreseen your ploy and condemned you to Hell anyways.

On a final note, isn't being moral only because you're afraid of repercussion bordering on immorality?
 
If I had $1 for every time God bailed me out..

That's the thing with me though, I am very open minded with religion especially when it comes down to this kind of stuff. I always change my mind or come up with new theories on how there might only be 1 ultimate God with many different names and different ways to worship it. My mind works in weird ways, don't hate me for it.
 
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