What would you if you didnt believe in God or someone proved he didnt exist? What would you need in your life to continue living? What would you live for?
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I believe in God but a deistic, impersonal god that doesn't interfere with the physical universe.
Btw, what you're doing is called 'Pascal's Wager' but its fallacious because there's not only one belief system, the Christians aren't afraid of Muslim hell, or Jewish hell, or any other religion's hell because they don't believe in those gods either. Since there are about 5,000 different religion, the difference between a Christian and an Atheist is that the former doesn't believe in in 4,999 while the latter doesn't believe in all 5,000.
In the expanded Pascal's Wager which was done purely statistically and factored in all religions with a significant percentage, it was found that "Good deeds" gave you the best chance of ending up in a decent place after death. It ranked above every other religion. Kind of interesting, don't youbthink?
@CuddleFeesh I guess I didn't make my point clear enough. I was just trying to say that no matter how hard anyone tried to prove that their belief in god was correct to me, the most important thing is still just to do good deeds. And you don't need to believe in anything to do that
@CuddleFeesh well first of all humans are social animals and I consider 'good deeds' to refer to anything that benefits another human without harming anyone else. I think we need to do them because that's the only way (in my opinion) that we can progress as a race. And yeah, because it feels good lol. It also has the added advantage of being the optimal 'religion' to guarantee you a decent afterlife (if there is an afterlife)
(Sorry I don't have the link to the full article on quora but I saved this attached image)
