The Official Who Needs God Thread

[Hojglad]

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Isn't believing in God sort of a freeroll?

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Indeed, risk of ruin = 0 (unless of course, you choose the wrong one, or two, or n as the case may be).

[lastchance]

Nope, not really.

I won't be able to elaborate very well, but I'll give it a stab.

In Christianity, the benefit of being a Christian is infinite (assumming it's true), as if you are not Christian, you go to hell, which is -infinity payoff. If you are Christian, you get +infinity payoff.

The problem with this is that there are many other religions that are the same, and these religions come into conflict with each other.

There may be a religion, let's call it LCism, (because I am God) which says everyone who is a Christian goes to a place infinity times worse than hell, and everyone who is not christian goes to a place infinity times better than heaven. And if all that's true 1 times out a googleplex, it is -EV.

As for my personal beliefs,

<--- God. (and no, you can't argue definitions)

[Emmitt2222]

I do
<--- so does he

[ChoicestHops]

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<---- Christian


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[The Dude]

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Isn't believing in God sort of a freeroll?

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No:

"Even the Demons believe."
-Jesus

[BusterStacks]

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The more educated the person, the less likely it is they believe in god.

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[mack848]

In the UK, anyway:

The older you are, the more likely it is you believe in God.

The older you are, the more likely it is that you were taught in school that religion was fact.

Is indoctrination too strong a word?

[Jack of Arcades]

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Isn't believing in God sort of a freeroll?

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This is commonly called Pascal's Wager. Problem is, believing in God isn't a binary proposition.

Myself, I'm an Apatheist.

[fsuplayer]

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<--- Agnostic

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[ddollevoet]

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<-----Atheist

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