Prejudice"Are you prejudiced?" asks StapMyVitals. Have you been a victim of prejudice? Are you a columnist for a popular daily newspaper? Don't bang on about how you never judge people on first impressions - no-one will believe you.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:53)
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You've basically stated 'Pascal's Wager' there.The consequences of believing and being wrong are minimal.
The consequences of not believing and being wrong could be eternal and possibly quite unpleasant.
Therefore, the rational thing to do is to believe in god.
But there's all sorts of problems with this argument, the major one being that it privileges the christian god over others, and there's no more evidence to suggest that 'god' (as in Jehovah or whatever) exists than there is to say that Quetzalcoatl (the feathered serpent god of the Mayans) exists. Maybe Quetzalcoatl doesn't care if we believe or not, and it's ok to be an atheist...
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