religious people- If you found out that your religion wasn't...

You said you did Physics because it was right at the time.

"I didn't do well in Physics, in the end. However, I can be comforted in the fact that I did learn some new things which I found interesting, and that at least I tried doing well. It's far better than not having studied the subject or not putting any effort in doing well at all."

Judging by the number of likes its getting people cannot see the flaw between making a short term good decision that has undesirable results with devoting their whole entire life to a belief which turns out wrong

I'm a christian and if I died and it turned out there wasn't a God, either:
a) I'd be dead and so wouldn't realize
b) I'd still feel I'd spent a happy and fulfilled life doing my best to love and care for others and have fun.

It'd be no loss honestly!

Jews people pray 3 times a day. And I don't think praying 5 times a day is actually waste of time. It's at different times and we don't even get tired of doing it.


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This is wishful thinking. There are over a billion muslims in the world, of course there are some who get tired of it and see it as a chore.

That analogy was comparing an AS level subject with a degree. We were comparing degrees with graduate employment.

There isn't a flaw.

Its gone over your head what I am trying to say. Maybe its not as easy to understand as i thought

No, you're just trying to attack the analogy and not it's underlying points. In the first, the degree was the desired end point. In the second, the graduate job was the desired end point.

Yes, my analogies are not easy to understand.

No you have failed to understand my further analogy to yours and explanation as to why yours failed

Im leading a horse to water but its not intelligent enough or willing to drink

This implies either the Christian God exists or none does. But what if the real God is Odin for example?

The horse is actually a camel, but the leader does not know because he is in fact blind - which is also a reason why he is not aware that there no water in the first place.

I used to study Physics at AS level. It was a subject I was not really good in, but I did it any way because I felt it was an important subject which would help me get into the university course I wanted (chemical engineering).

I didn't do well in Physics, in the end. However, I can be comforted in the fact that I did learn some new things which I found interesting, and that at least I tried doing well. It's far better than not having studied the subject or not putting any effort in doing well at all.

Thats great but how about if your degree lasted your entire lifetime and all the opportunity cost of pursuing it?

There is no polite way of telling a man they dedicated their life to a folly and i think that if a person realised that at the end or in some afterlife, they would be crushed beyond recognition

I can't study all the degrees in the world, and I'm quite sure a potential employer, if he sees my extensive CV with all these degrees, will say: "well from all of this I think you're undecided on what you want, and so I'm unfortunately going to decline your application because you're not the candidate which we want."

So what I do need to do is to make an informed, rational decision weighing in all the possible information I can gather, to decide which degree to study - and to excel in this degree. So that when I do apply for a job, I will be doing so having the utmost confidence in my application being successful, given all my preparations.

Im not sure you understand what i mean. If you chased the Physics degree all your life which you didnt enjoy until your old age sacrificing much better opportunities and quality of life elsewhere in your misguided belief that it was the right one only to find it was all a lie / no truth at the end. You would be pretty gutted. Sure you could take some silver linings from the experience but objectively you sacrificed your life for nothing

Comparing the wrong decision of living your life according to a god that ultimately turns out is not real is not the same as making a good decision with the information available at the time (Physics degree) that doesnt turn out well after 2 or 3 years.

Who said that my degree was in Physics?

That analogy was comparing an AS level subject with a degree. We were comparing degrees with graduate employment.

There isn't a flaw.

Its gone over your head what I am trying to say. Maybe its not as easy to understand as i thought

No, you're just trying to attack the analogy and not it's underlying points. In the first, the degree was the desired end point. In the second, the graduate job was the desired end point.

Yes, my analogies are not easy to understand.

The horse is actually a camel, but the leader does not know because he is in fact blind - which is also a reason why he is not aware that there no water in the first place.

What a ridiculous post. Most people don't care whether they worship the correct God? Is that why countless wars have been waged simply become other people worshipped the wrong God? Is that why you still have people continuously arguing that their God is the only true one?

Not to mention that a lot of religious texts proclaim that if you have the misfortune of choosing the wrong God then you will spend eternity in hell.
So yes I would think that "most" people should care.

But yes actually we can be smug. If there were no God then we have saved countless hours not praying or giving up the things we love simply because a mythical man told us to. How many people have dedicated their lives to God? How many people have died for God?

I think you're a very naive and misinformed person tbh.

I am not religious, and I believe it is so unlikely as to be considered effectively impossible that any of the current religions is "correct" (I have heard that there is a possibility that if you walked at a wall for long enough, longer than the age of the universe, you would eventually expect to transport through it due to some quantum phenomenon - consider the probability of that occurring when you walk at a wall for only a second or so). But if there were some sort of higher power instrumental in the universe's inception, able to control our fates in some sort of "afterlife", and it was benevolent, then I'd like to think it would not be demanding of worship and adoration. The judgement of such a being would surely be based on much less trivial things.

right after you died, how would you honestly feel? I am just wondering because there are at least 5 other religions than your own and if you die and find out it wasn't the 'correct' one would you feel as if you wasted your time? or would you still be okay with it?

Yes! That was the point I was trying to get across. Muslims are told to pray 5 times a day which would have summed up to about at least a couple of years gone to waste throughout their lifetime..

And If they found out that God isn't real then...

It wouldnt happen to muslims as they r on the correct & the best religion that is taught by Allah to us.. I would recommend u to read THE HOLY QURAAN once with its translation u will get the answer to many of ur questions.

This isn't going to convince anyone as all religious people say their religion is the correct and best one.