# Christians, Muslims, & Jews: do adherents of the other faiths worship the same God that you do?

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**Created:** [December 21, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-muslims-jews-do-adherents-of-the-other-faiths-worship-the-same-god-that-you-do/607000 "2011-12-21T21:47:41Z")
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### Author: ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-muslims-jews-do-adherents-of-the-other-faiths-worship-the-same-god-that-you-do/607000/42 "2011-12-22T17:55:59Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Isn’t that funny-I can’t seem to find that specific argument for atheism anywhere on this board at all.

I had in mind things like

> [@Arguments for the non-existence of God.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arguments-for-the-non-existence-of-god/605084/102):
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> in my opinion the best argument against God is the argument that he’s just one of many possibilities, and therefore unlikely to be true.

or

> [@Arguments for the non-existence of God.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arguments-for-the-non-existence-of-god/605084/11):
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> Here you go. There are infinite mutually exclusive possibilities for god or gods, such as the Christian god. For any one of these to be true all the others would have to be false. For one specific one of these to be true would be infinitely unlikely. Mathematically .0000X1 where X is infinite 0’s is the same as 0. So if anyone asks me if their God exists I can answer, “No. There is zero chance your god exists.”

(from the [Arguments for the non-existence of God](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633710) thread), and perhaps also

> [@I'm an evil bastard. Can I get into Heaven?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-evil-bastard-can-i-get-into-heaven/606460/89):
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> I don’t see how my lack of faith in Jesus is any different than your lack of faith in Allah. We both have Gods we don’t believe in.

from [I’m an evil bastard. Can I get into Heaven?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=635180)

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