For all you know there is no way to know, but for all you know there is a way. You bet on the latter and attempt to find it because there would be consequences on not finding it possibly. Until you rule it out then you take it seriously.
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Pascal's Wage Reloaded.
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For all you know there is no way to know, but for all you know there is a way. You bet on the latter and attempt to find it because there would be consequences on not finding it possibly. Until you rule it out then you take it seriously.
Only if you assume God, and then assume it has some value that is set by religious tradition. So no credible math, just speculation of "what if". Atheists don't make these assumptions, so no actual math.
Religions are of this world, hate to break it to you. Your thinking and conclusions are of this world. You can't escape this world by imagining there is some other world while IN this world.
I suggest you find pleasure in your religious belief.
But, if you are correct and you deny pleasure, should I take it you don't find pleasure in your religious belief and experience?
Assuming all this is true, or at least plausible. To objective minds that aren't under pressure from religious dogma there is no reason to assume these concepts of heaven/hell have any credibility. At face value they are absurd and contrary to the peace and love that religions are supposed to teach and advocate. Torturing a soul for eternity just because the mind of that soul wasn't convinced an ideas was true is quite extreme and criminal. Would you do that to people like me?
So you could be on the right or wrong side of God without really knowing it, and be cast into hell because of a minor human error. Would that be justified?
The assumption is not they have credibility, is for all you know they might. I already provided plausible reasons for hellfire for avoiding God's guidance or rejecting it from my viewpoint. But it's irrelevant to the argument the reasons I provided. Hell and it's proof is not needed. Although I believe hell has proof.
Whether it's minor or big, I'm saying the person doesn't know when betting. If he is sure hell won't come out for his disbelief, he can wager this temporary useless life of this world.
So no amount of math you can do will assure you that you are bound for heaven.
That's got to be stressful.
True.
I have no reason to assume they are correct, and that's because the concepts have no credibility.
It's more plausible for those who assume the concepts are correct than those of us who find them absurd and contrary to the basic morals of human conduct.
I offer you a more peaceful path: take your intellectual authority and reject religion.
That's a long shot that no sane person would invest anything of value. Like time. Freedom. Intellectual autonomy.
Whether a long shot or not or you just conjecture about how much of long shot it is, mathematically, unless 100% sure no hell for path you taking, search the path for heaven.
That Pascal devised a wager suggests he wasn't all that convinced it was true. If you have to hedge bets, then you are not very confident.