Moderate Muslims and Catholics-Nice But Dumb?

[WelshMackem]

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You are right I should have said that Atheism is illogical and irrational.

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Not so, if any of the popularly supported religion's views of "their" god were to hold true, why would we believe that such an all loving, all singing, all dancing big fella would value the soul of a mass murderer who happens to claim a belief in Him above that of an honest, hard working, considerate person who doesn't? THAT is illogical and irrational.

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If I believe in ANY religion that advocates eternal life I have a better chance mathmatically of living forever in "heaven" than someone who doesn't believe in anything.

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Ignoring Pascal's wager, this argument is still flawed. Following this "logic", you should immediately rule out Judaism as a potential religion to feign belief in, since (as far as I'm aware) Judaism has no requirement to follow its tenets or affirm its belief system in order to secure one's eternal salvation, therefore expressing a belief in Judaism simply reuces your chances of being saved.

Further than any of this, to suggest that following (or in your case pretending to follow) a religion is in any way logical, is possibly the least logical comment on this thread - to paraphrase - I don't believe there is a God, but just in case I'm wrong I'm going to try to pull the wool over the eyes of one possible manifestation of him/her/it, because if there is a god he's probably either too stupid or too busy to see through my paper thin ruse.

Another thing to bear in mind is that the Bible was written some time after the supposed miraculous events of Jesus's life/death and then "revised" on numerous occasions when "new interpretations/evidence" came to light. What on earth would make anyone think that following the doctrine of a book re-written several times through the ages to support the then political position of the Vatican (or in the case of protestantism, the wish of the English monarch to get divorced and sleep around a bit more without being damned for eternity) would gain any favour in the eyes of the big guy?