“It is better to believe in the possibility of God and find out you were foolish, than not to believe and preclude discovering you might have been wise.”
Being ever in an evolving status of what I can bring myself to believe, I would like to nit-pick -with your permission- the contentions contained spoken and implied in your quote. (And first, thank goodness your suggested consequence of not believing doesn’t end with the reader burning in hell. LOL )
Yet, it still falls quite short on logical and assumptive grounds: How should believing equate to wisdom? The one in no way follows the other–you can be correct; but a wise man does not the mere existence of deity make. Whilst the opposite of course pertains: The nonexistence of deity cannot make a man foolish for merely having lived his life assuming inaccurately: It makes him ultimately incorrect, but not ultimately a fool.
I guess I am pointing out that faith and belief are not the same as wisdom.
Hi John. I will post a reply on your thread “…escape from religion”, a more appropriate place for a conversation between ex-‘cons’. I have been working on it. I might be able to finish it after supervising my 90 year old mother’s nightly session of solitaire on my computer.
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