First
off, let's look at the reasoning of Pascal's wager, even though it's never so simple as Pascal proposes.
To accept a "belief" for fear that I could roast forever in a hell hotter than an oven at Auschwitz, is only the highest form of emotional terrorism there is, and makes a complete mockery of the whole idea that God gave us our ability to reason to seek and find him, just so we could boil it all down to "what have I got to loose?"
Secondly, you have everything to loose, and not only in this life but the next.
Let's assume there is an afterlife, for example, but you're entire life you've followed a religion that is actually nothing but a tool of the very devil your "religion" claims to only ever be working against?
Assuming there is no afterlife, on the other hand, what would you dare to try and be in this life, if there was no chance at any other, and the only experiences you will ever have in all of eternity as YOU, are the ones you can only have NOW, while you're alive?
Bet on an afterlife, and complacency robs you of everything in this earthly Eden we have, and perhaps only for this very moment can experience, on the "wish" for something that you could come closer to making real today, than when you're lying forever in your grave.
To accept a "belief" for fear that I could roast forever in a hell hotter than an oven at Auschwitz, is only the highest form of emotional terrorism there is, and makes a complete mockery of the whole idea that God gave us our ability to reason to seek and find him, just so we could boil it all down to "what have I got to loose?"
Secondly, you have everything to loose, and not only in this life but the next.
Let's assume there is an afterlife, for example, but you're entire life you've followed a religion that is actually nothing but a tool of the very devil your "religion" claims to only ever be working against?
Assuming there is no afterlife, on the other hand, what would you dare to try and be in this life, if there was no chance at any other, and the only experiences you will ever have in all of eternity as YOU, are the ones you can only have NOW, while you're alive?
Bet on an afterlife, and complacency robs you of everything in this earthly Eden we have, and perhaps only for this very moment can experience, on the "wish" for something that you could come closer to making real today, than when you're lying forever in your grave.
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