Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: maziwanka
hahaha. I love Corbett's thinking - its a win-win situation for him. hahaha
Perhaps you have hear of Blaise Pascal?
He came to the same conclusion as Corbett:
You live as though God exists.
-If God exists, you go to heaven: your gain is infinite.
-If God does not exist, you gain nothing & lose nothing.
You live as though God does not exist.
-If God exists, you go to hell: your loss is infinite.
-If God does not exist, you gain nothing & lose nothing.
If you live your life as if God exists you have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
If you live your life as if God does not exist you have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
Therefore it makes far more sense to live your life as if God exists.
Read up on Pascal's Wager to get a better understand of this whole point of view.
Pascal was a mathematician who tried to apply math to the belief of God. You may not agree with his idea, but it is certainly interesting and still debated 300+ years after it was wrote.