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Originally posted by Shpoop
now i know many people dont appreciate it being looked at this way, but for you economists, its a simple question of marginal analysis and risk. Weigh your benefits with your costs.
Beleiving in God: cost: Rules and regulations...but can still have fun in life
Benefit: Eternal salvation
Aetheism: Benefit: no rules, do what you want
cost: Hell. Forever.
Is it not worth the risk of a little bit of self control on earth, just incase you may be banished to hell forever? Forever is a pretty long time. i know you shouldnt force yourself to believe in God, but i was just made that way.
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i'm sorry, but that's only if christianity is right. according to other religions, eternal salvation isn't necessarily what you get for believing, and even if it is, if you don't follow the rules right, you might still go to hell.
if christianity is wrong, and atheism is right, then there won't be hell. it'll just be nothingness. we exist, then we don't. no hell. and i think i'd rather an eternity of hell for not mindlessly following something (i realize not all religious people are mindlessly following it) then follow something i think is wrong just for supposed eternal salvation.