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Originally Posted by Rekna
If you believe in God and are wrong then when you die you are dead and there is nothing else. You may have "waisted" some of your life believing in God. Now if you disbelieve in God and are wrong after you die you would spend eternity in pain and suffering.
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I think your premise is off here. If I disbelieve in God and am wrong, we still don't know what
kind of God it is. If it's the vengeful and mean God of the Old Testament, then you're probably right. If it's the kinder, gentler God of the New Testament, then he might forgive my lack of faith and instead judge me on my deeds. If it's the God of some other religion, or some God we haven't even heard about yet, then who knows what He might do. He might chastise the
alleged believers for believing in the
wrong God.
So I'm agnostic. I think the existence of God is unlikely. And I think that if there is a God, it's largely futile for us to try to understand His nature.