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Ellipsys, your argument is known as Pascal's Wager. I do have something to lose by believing in God; I lose the time spent in the rituals of worship, I lose the ability to write the rules of my own life, and most importantly, I lose the knowledge that I am living my life based on what I truly believe to be the truth.
Even if I did hedge my bets, why should I choose the Christian faith? Why not convert to Islam or Hindu or Scientology?
Besides, you're not giving your own God much credit if you don't think He would know that I was only pretending to believe. How far do you think that would get me?
To add to my last post: I said that good and evil are social constructs. I would like to clarify that I think that they are very necessary constructs, and outside a philosophy essay, I don't think there's any harm in discussing them as absolutes, and behaving as if they were.
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