Truth is that - much like myself -
she's the sole bread-provider in her whole (large) family and thanks to my ability
to stimulate self-confidence by example she's incorporated her desire to help
unfortunate ones like me, while bringing out the word of Jesus.I guess that I used to express my rage about my (too) many losses by sounding like I didn't feel God's care and protection for me and she mentioned plus encouraged my learning and understanding of what a French philosopher of the 17th century had expressed in an almost arithmetical way of reasoning:
God
exists = +1
God
doesn't exist = -1
I live
as believer = +1
I live
as NON- believer = -1
Someone
lives as believer and God does exist = +2
Someone
lives as NON- believer and God exists =
0
Someone
lives as believer and God doesn't exist = 0
Someone
lives as NON-believer and God doesn't exist = -2
It's
clear that to score +2, is best while -2 is worst, while scoring 0 means
nothing, I'm personally convinced that the zeroes mean that your soul will be
Idling (or eternal suspension in nothing, that to me is true eternal hell).
What I find funny is that when I
tried to explain to my good philosopher atheist friend Iacopo, he immediately got
back to me with this reply:
I answer to you Carlo with another problem.
Suppose
you have a thousand EU, and no more than that.
Then
I come and say to you: "If you give me your thousand EU, in a year I come
back and I'll return you a million."
You
could reply: "But how can I trust that you will return in a year?"
I
could say:
- If you trust me and I never come back, you lose a thousand EU.
- If you trust me and I come back, you gain 999,000 EU.
- If you don't trust me and I disappear , you earn the thousand EU that you do not lose.
- If you don't trust me and I come back, you lose 999,000 EU that you would have earned.
Would
you trust me? Would you give me a thousand EU? Even if you don't know me at
all? Because this is the situation with religion.
In
the end, nobody ever speaks directly with God, but with other men who try to
convince you to act like them, you suggest "because it's the will of
God." Sometimes you can agree, for example, to feed the hungry and help
those who are ill, but sometimes you really cannot, like when you push yourself to the
holy war, or only to endure the injustices done by bullies because, according
to them, we shouldn't judge others (especially the powerful) but just in the
case we think that God will punish them. Because in the end that's why we are
forced a religion. "Be good and bear". Bullying and injustice of whoever
is talking? so? Is it the same as believing in "their" God?
I
think that even if God existed, it shouldn't care if someone believes or doesn't
believe in him, what counts is to behave as the inner conscience suggests,
trying to leave the world a little better than how it was found. And this goes
for everyone, believer or not.
I just want to say that what Iacopo says here in the end finds me in total agreement because - even if God doesn't exist - it's very important not to ever hurt someone else and leave our world a little better after having lived an entire (short or long) life.
I just want to say that what Iacopo says here in the end finds me in total agreement because - even if God doesn't exist - it's very important not to ever hurt someone else and leave our world a little better after having lived an entire (short or long) life.
- http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/pascals-wager.htm
- http://infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
- http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/theistic-proofs/pascals-wager/
- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
- http://atheism.about.com/od/argumentsforgod/a/pascalswager.htm
- http://www.religioustolerance.org/pascal_w.htm
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