Pascals Wager?

Pascals Wager is a commonly used argument by 'believers' -- "what have you got to lose? if your right, and God is real, you win -- if there is no God then you would have lost nothing by believing". This is probably the best argument 'believers' have. However, the ones making this argument are forgetting a few things -- first off that their god is not the only god that humans think or have thought to be real. The amount of gods man has believed to be real are in the thousands -- each one having an equal probability of being real (unless some evidence surfaced that showed otherwise). The odds of some how being lucky enough to have "picked" the right god to believe in are not all that great. But let's forget that, what about this character God? He can read minds, right? He would know which people believe only because of Pascals Wager; which would make them not legitimate -- he would probably treat them as he would any atheist -- perhaps even worse, because at-least atheists are honest (lying is a sin).

'Believers' will often say "what if your wrong" -- well, the answer is obvious if atheists are wrong -- we would be subjected to eternal suffering for an eternity, for being honest. But what if 'believers' are wrong. What if you only have this one life, this one shot to be alive -- and you blow it by living in a fantasy -- never truly enjoying the world and universe as it is. If there is meaning in life, I believe it would be to understand and enjoy it the best we can -- if 'believers' are wrong, then they spent their lives worshiping, conforming, and fearing a figment of their imagination -- what a waste of a life. If there is nothing greater then being alive -- this being the peak of existence, then the 'believers' would have suffered the ultimate loss. Considering how many claims in the bible have been disproved (by historical records and the scientific process), the Bible is shown by this to not a book of fact. If the writers were unable to know that the Earth was round, I'm certain they would have no way of knowing about something as unknowable as the existence of God. So what if I'm wrong? I am very confident I am not. While many will disagree with this, I feel that if believers are wrong, they face consequences as bad as any Hell -- which is being alive, while absorbed in fantasy.











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