You are living your life as a good person because you fear the sky pixie will do nasty things to you when you are dead. Congratulations you are behaving like an immoral dirtbag. Good people don’t do good things because they expect candy and bunnies, they do good things because thats what good people do. The second you put a gun to someones head and threaten them with punishment ALL of their moral actions from that point on become a lie. You are spouting the same nonsense that pretty much all the believers in an after life spout.
You believe all of these things without the slightest shred of evidence and then drop Pascals wager into the mix? hows this, If you are wrong (and that is what all the available evidence says) then you are throwing away your one single life for no other reason than an illogical belief in some random bullshit. If you have children it gets even worse if you manage to infect them with your silliness because now you are throwing away multiple lifetimes on the same unfounded nonsense. I know you believe you are right about this, and sadly the human monkey is easily fooled by his own thoughts.
I feel it’s worth pointing out that if you believe this, it’s a direct logical conclusion that any form of law enforcement is immoral. After all, if you punish someone for raping, and God’s going to do that anyways, then you’re administering a doubled-up punishment, and that’s incredibly unjust. However, if your beliefs (for which there is absolutely no evidence, no reason to believe whatsoever) are wrong, then not punishing them is unjust.
Speaking of evidence, do you have any? Any reason, whatsoever, for us to believe any of this? Because looking at your OP and trying to break it down into logical syllogism, what I see is a huge number of absolutely unjustified assumptions which I see no reason to accept. There is literally no reason for any of us to believe what you’re saying. Hell, I don’t even understand why you believe it - the reason you’ve provided seems to be “because it makes me happy”. That’s not a good reason to believe something. Please, when come back, provide evidence. Or, if you’re just interested in witnessing, and nothing more… don’t bother.
Then where does God fit in if you’re choosing what you want to believe? Shouldn’t you be believing in what God wants even if it’s something you personally don’t want to believe in? If your religion is just whatever you want to believe then God is irrelevant in your religion.
God: Did you use science like I wanted you to?
You: Science? I thought you wanted me to follow religion.
God: Religion? That’s just a bunch of stuff made up by other fallible people like yourself. That’s why it’s so full of contradictions. Anyone can write a book. I created the universe. That’s reality. If you wanted know me, you should have been studying the way the universe worked.
Carl Sagan’s daughter shares this story. Emphasis mine.
One day when I was still very young, I asked my father about his parents. I knew my maternal grandparents intimately, but I wanted to know why I had never met his parents.
*** “Because they died,” he said wistfully.***
“Will you ever see them again?” I asked.
He considered his answer carefully. Finally, he said that there was nothing he would like more in the world than to see his mother and father again, but that he had no reason — and no evidence — to support the idea of an afterlife, so he couldn’t give in to the temptation.
“Why?”
Then he told me, very tenderly, that it can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. You can get tricked if you don’t question yourself and others, especially people in a position of authority. He told me that anything that’s truly real can stand up to scrutiny.
God: “What? I created this big awesome Universe and you expected me to build another awesome place for after you die? You’re a bunch of greedy pigs down there.”
None of which have anything to do with God. When I do stuff I have some clue as to the consequences in this world. None in the next.
Was your Bible written by Kafka by any chance?
The universe, as a human, rather sucks and is mostly inaccessible anyway. And the fact that we die in the first place is a criticism of God’s supposed workmanship. Just picture God calling someone dying of agony from cancer a “greedy pig”.
The claim that God created the universe and us is more of a condemnation of God than anything else.
Right, and I’m an engineer of the electrical variety. As such, I am inclined to see design everywhere, even where there is absence of evidence. But I have done enough study outside of my field to understand the rationale behind the claims of the other sciences. As someone once said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where’s yours?
Just to echo Critical1, the OP proposes a god who believes that two wrongs make a right, or perhaps an inverted Golden Rule. That is, do unto others exactly as they have done to you.
The OP may be almost completely derivative and cliche, but at least he came up with the novel and clever twist that you are better off betting that god exists, or you will be sorry in the end.
He should come up with a clever shorthand for that. Given his programming background, maybe something like… The C++ Gamble?