1. Pascal's Wager

Comment #88369 by LeeWhitt on November 16, 2007 at 8:48 am

I am an atheist and cannot understand the reason behind thinking that God would punish me for being a non-believer. If God does punish non-believers and he/she is omniscient, then this implies that God created me as an atheist knowing full well that he/she was going to punish me for it when I died. There would be nothing I could do about it for God is omniscient, so he/she knows the future, meaning that my destiny is already pre-determined and I have no free will. With this in mind, it would seem that punishing me for atheism would seem a little unfair, considering that I have absolutely no say in the matter.