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The famous scientist Blaise Pascal spent several days wondering whether he should become an atheist or a Christian, and looked at it from a pragmatic standpoint. In the end, he decided thus:
If he became an atheist and atheism was right, he would spend his whole life fighting against the idea of God and die and gain nothing.
If he became a Christian and Christianity was right, he would spend his whole life fighting for God and die and gain everlasting glory in paradise.
That's why, even if God does not exist, isn't it better to live life with the hope of something to come afterward, instead of just trying to convince people that there is really nothing? I'm a Christian, and proud of it.
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That only works if the choice is between atheism and Christianity. It also only works if you actually have to 'fight against the idea of God'. Given the massive number of religions in this world and the sheer comparitive ease of being an atheist, I'm gonna choose atheism.
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I have found that Christians are the most satisfied of people on earth, because we know that personal possessions are not everything. That's why superstars end up committing suicide, because once they have everything they could ever want, there's nothing left.
And anyway, who wants to become One with Nature?
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You haven't met many Bhuddists, right? Or, you know, anyone pretty much who isn't Christian?
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Except that they aren't, they're using cosmological and subatomic observations to create models in an attempt to explain it, and aren't claiming to have an answer yet. It's much more useful than proclaiming it to be unknowable and teaching that as wisdom.
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True, but my point was rather that Science isn't capable of answering all questions and that some of the foundations of physics are taken on faith simply because we don't know the answers yet.
Perhaps I should have used the example of String Theory instead; it's ultimately unprovable and unfalsifiable but it fits the facts of the universe as we know it and people are prepared to fight for their belief in it.