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Hmmm, you seem to get in this funk where you don't read entire posts before you respond Pat.
I hate it when I do that. I bet you are really going to show me now!
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I you go back and read what I wrote again, you'll see that I was speaking of a hypothetical situation where the christians are actually right, and everyone else is wrong.
Ahhh I see. So all I have to do in any debate is pick a hypothetical situation where I am right, and therefore I am right. Good to know. Who can argue against that logic?
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Using those parameters, every other religion(including your duck religion) is just as wrong as atheism because hypothetically the christians are right.
So you have picked an infinitesimally small possibility, and made a hypothetical conjecture that it is correct, in order to argue about the relative odds of believing in the Christianity heaven and hell model compared with atheism. Well that is nice. I see your point.
My point is that your hypothetical situation is AN INFINITESIMALLY SMALL POSSIBILITY. You seem to get in this funk where you don't read entire posts before you respond.
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The bottom line of my post was that being an atheist is pretty much akin to saying "***** it, I lose", you might as well take a shot at something.
I think it has already been argued that that is unlikely to be the attitude that God will reward at the pearly gates. If you are going to believe, at least do it right for ***** sake. I have less respect for you than I do for those with blind faith, which was not exactly at high levels to begin with.
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And most of the major religions are pretty much the same thing with different labels anyways. Who cares if God is named Allah, or Yahweh, or even Zues. It all pretty much comes out the same. But that's a topic for another thread
Well now you are making up your own religion. Your chances just went to infinitely small minus one.
As was famously said by someone wise:
I put it to you, that you are also an atheist. I just believe in one less God than you do. When you understand why you don't believe in all those other Gods, you will understand why I don't believe in yours.
Edited, Sat May 1 09:31:43 2004 by Patrician