In Reply to: sigh posted by Acheick on February 22, 2006 at 23:58:06:
Ah, yes. Pascal's Wager.
The only flaw with that wager is that it hinges entirely on the notion that your favored religion and its definition of God, paradise, hell, right and wrong and so forth, is accurate. It doesn't take all the possible variations of those factors into account.
Here's a humourous way of putting it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-nsg1iqrJY
Food for thought for any Christians reading this: Have you ever stopped to consider that, in the future, Christianity (or any modern religion, for that matter) might be looked upon in the same way Greek or Egyptian mythology is looked upon today?