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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, do you ask believers if they “hope” they are wrong? I think I’m right — in fact, I would say I know I am — so it doesn’t make much sense to ask if I hope I’m wrong.

But if one insists, I would actually say I fervently hope to be right in my atheism. To learn with certainty that there is a god who has chosen to unleash such suffering so capriciously on so many of his flock, like children who die terrible deaths of cancer or malnourishment, would be so morally devastating to me. A god who could stop suffering but chose not to, for whatever reason, would be a level of disappointment and disgust that I hope not to face.

As for what god will “do to me” for not believing, if given the chance I would simply remind him that my non-belief came from the very mental faculties with which he chose to endow me. It would have been disrespectful not to follow my brain and my observations where they led me, so if he wants to punish that while rewarding those Pascal’s Wager people who “knew better” but callously decided to pretend to believe because they thought it might pay out like a lottery ticket, that would be yet another example of his wickedness.[/quote]

This.[/quote]

Ditto[/quote]

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