Positively Non-Religious

hatefulatheist:

So pulling out an idea that has been out there for a while to get people’s opinions on it. It was originally put forward by Richard Dawkin in The God Delusion. The idea of an anti-Pascal’s wager:

Suppose we grant that there is indeed some small chance that God exists. Nevertheless, it could be…

Also, given the thousands of gods and goddesses that people believe in or have believed in throughout history, atheism is a better bet, statistically speaking, since if you were to get to the afterlife and one of those thousands of other gods were in charge, they’d probably look upon you more favorably if you were a non-believer than if you avidly supported a rival deity.

Or, here’s a better one:

If the Christian God does exist, then he’s a cruel megalomaniac, and there’s no way I’d want to spend any amount of time in his kingdom, let alone an infinite amount of time.

Not that I believe either of these scenarios is plausible or likely to happen.  But if people are on the fence, and Pascal’s wager is their reason for holding on to some semblance of belief (which I’d imagine is a significant number of people … I’ve heard people openly express the view that they’d rather believe in God just in case he turns out to be real), then such reasons might dissuade them.  Or, if nothing else, cause them to reexamine their views.