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Old 05-18-2010, 01:54 PM   #381
Phaneuf3
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
Heh, I'm sure one could find a set of gods that had mutually exclusive requirements to gain entry to their good place.

Or one could just trust that whatever god there is would be ok with a skeptic that tried their best to live a good life and came by their skepticism honestly as opposed to someone who believed in order to hedge their bets.
So more or less you subscribe to Pascal's wager... By believing that god (if he existed) would be pleased with someone who simply lived a good life, you are (presumably) living as though that god exists. You have everything to gain by doing this and nothing to lose.

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