To: Central Scrutiniser
Look at it this way...if the faithful are wrong...and there is no life beyond this existance....big deal....we're still dead...
but consider for one second if YOU are wrong....
Where will that leave you?
50 posted on
07/08/2006 12:07:33 AM PDT by
Crim
(I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
To: Crim
Because substituting dogma for science makes a mockery of real, actual science. Or maybe there were 3 arks? Faith is one thing, willful ignorance and stupidity is another.
To: Crim
Bingo! Although I have believed in God all my life, I first heard something similar to what you have stated when studying French literature in High School. It was called "The Payee de Pascal" (Pascal's Wager). Pascal was a 17th century French mathematician who invented the first calculator and laid the foundation for the laws of probability. In his famous "Penses" (thoughts) he states:
"If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing. Thus ...we are compelled to gamble..."
It was almost 40 years ago when I first read this quote, but I have never forgotten it.
To: Crim
"Look at it this way...if the faithful are wrong...and there is no life beyond this existance....big deal....we're still dead... "
I don't understand how if these stories turn out to be wrong it would destroy one's belief in God? If your belief in God rests on a book then you haven't found God.
To: Crim
Look at it another way, if there is indeed life beyond this existence ...
but consider for one second if what YOU had learned and believed about this after life are wrong ....
Where will that leave you?
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