And I got nothing against you

Just curious

The answer is faith.

So you value faith over empiricism?

I’m not going to elaborate

Fair enough. I am honestly curious.

Values do matter very much to me.

If you are indeed curious either read a bible or attend a local church service. They would be much better at answering your questions in person than one can do online.

I've attended many, I used to be a Christian when I was young myself. I was curious why individuals here would still believe in it.

And I read the bible already

I used to be athiest, then i converted.

atheism is depressing

sad life

So you converted because you found it to be too much emotionally?

no

So why did you convert?

Why accept the void of nothingness? If I am wrong when I die I’ll never know. Yet if I am right and atheism is wrong well that sucks for atheist.

Pascal's Wager has been debunked

I converted after looking into the odds of humanity existing, and drawing correlations between the big bang theory and the biblical story of creation. Among hundreds of other correlations between scientific fact and biblical teachings. I think science is not anti-christian, quite the opposite.

Hello!

Intelligent design is a good thing to look into.

Gwyn, you are aware that Pascal's Wager has been debunked, correct?

Doctor Anon - Which creation story are you talking about?

its been DEBUNKED xdxdxd

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Pray tell who came back from the dead and told us idiots?

It's simple rationality. You would have to apply it to all faiths, not just one. So there is the Pascal's Wager of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Taoism, etc... Each one, by not believing in them, you are taking a risk. Pascal's Wager only applies to believing in some sort of afterlife-reward versus not, but the problem arises when you take into account that there are thousands of different possible ones to believe in, and most are quite exclusionary for receiving the ultimate prize.

This is without taking into account the fact that if one lives their life according to a religious code that prevents them from fully experiencing their short time on earth and they are wrong, then they have squandered precious years of a finite existence.

Therefore, Pascal's Wager, even from a superficial analysis, is quite flawed.

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No that just means it applies to other faiths as well as atheism. What kind of pseudointellectual garbage is this?

Using debunked is still not appropriate terminology 💁🏻‍♀️

You could have said "I'm full of shit" in fewer words.

I was using it in the manner of 'demonstrate the hollowness of', which is correct.

Which is fine if you believe in the void

It's not hallow though.

Boils down to subjective opinion.

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Even if it could only apply to atheism you are still taking less of a chance.

But it is an irrational subjective opinion upon which to build your faith.

Again, pseudointellectual garbage.

Pascels wager was never "debunked", it's a fair critizism of that type of thinking. what's wrong with it

all it points out is "what if you're wrong you could go to hell" is an unsound argument for being religous