Is it important to know if God is real or not?

[Ghostaka]

Don't you think this thread is derailed enough?

It was your question my friend. Just trying to help you out.

Peace be upon you.

 

[OmarKhayyam]

No, if you take this perspcetive:

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.”
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

 

[McBell]

I want a link! Give me link!

And you further the point rather nicely.

 

[JMorris]

No, if you take this perspcetive:

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.”
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

wonderful, few posts deserve frubals as much as this one:clap

 

[logician]

No, if you take this perspcetive:

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.”
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The only problem with this is you're still worrying about the appeasement of some god, whether just or unjust. As an atheist, I'm not worried about the appeasement of any god.

 

[Jeremiah]

And you further the point rather nicely.

O lighten up. If you would read more carefully you'd see I already admitted my guilt in the very post you quoted. How about adding something to the topic on hand.

 

[Jeremiah]

No, if you take this perspcetive:

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.”
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them."

But it is not a matter of worship, OmarKhayyam. I am not asking if it is important to worship "God". If there was such an unjust god then it might be in our best interest, as a few have already pointed out, to know something about it.

 

[Jeremiah]

Out of the three virtues (greed, pride & fear) I like greed & pride and think they are good enough reasons to seek; as long as they are kept in check. Of courses I know the names "greed" and "pride" draw negative attention but that is only because people look at them negatively. I dislike fear the most because it is the least rational of the three. To hunt all of existence, out of fear, for some god that most likely does not exist, just seems really stupid to me.

 

[Anti-thesisofreason]

Out of the three virtues (greed, pride & fear) I like greed & pride and think they are good enough reasons to seek; as long as they are kept in check. Of courses I know the names "greed" and "pride" draw negative attention but that is only because people look at them negatively. I dislike fear the most because it is the least rational of the three. To hunt all of existence, out of fear, for some god that most likely does not exist, just seems really stupid to me.

Fear is usually a reaction to an unknown or lack of understanding.

 

[McBell]

O lighten up. If you would read more carefully you'd see I already admitted my guilt in the very post you quoted. How about adding something to the topic on hand.

Fair enough.

Now, what the topic at hand again..?