quitting graal

[Kaimetsu]

Originally posted by _0AfTeRsHoCk0_
The way I see it, if we're going to pray and have faith and there really is no God, then we haven't really lost anything in the end and we haven't exactly become a worse person for doing so. However, if there really is a God...

You seem to be completely changing the subject? I did not argue that nobody should believe in a God, I just stated that his post seemed out of phase with the generic Christian mindset.

But, in answer to your statement: You're using an extremely simplified model of the universe. 'Either God exists or God doesn't exist!' No. God could exist or Hooloo could exist or the world could be a projection of the coolness of megaketchup. Almost any religion could be true, and y'know what most religions have in common? Two things:

1) You shalt not worship any other god. If Christianity is true and you're worshipping Allah then God ain't gonna be too happy about that. Same works in reverse, too.
2) Thy god is kind and merciful. I decide not to worship any theoretical deities because I am applying logic to the evidence that I have. From the evidence we have, it's clear that God is very unlikely to exist. No intelligent being that is concerned with the pursuit of truth and unwilling to deceive himself would be a theist. Will God punish me for being intelligent and logical? Doesn't sound so merciful to me.