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I can't remember that many people around here declaring their atheism. Any links?

Do I wish there was a god, sure. I'm pragmatic though. There's no evidence of a god existing. Humans take from each other and that's all religion is. I'm okay just being moral and a good person on my own without pissing away money to child diddlers.

The Catholic church could feed the word for decades and maybe a century by selling their assets. Certainly God would approve of that. They don't and won't. They hide from their past errors. To me that's not moral, so therefore I cannot be religious. Any religion. Not just picking on Catholics. They probably have done less evil than most other religions.

Reality is we're animals. Not a knock on anyone here, but you'd have to believe that dogs, cats and squirrels go to heaven as well. No one believes that happens if they're sane. You die and go to a dirt grave, get burned or rot somewhere. If there is an afterlife, I'll be accepted as I'm not a piece of shit human. So I don't really worry about it and I'm not forking over money to kid diddlers or terrorist if I were to be muslim.

I don’t know about the Pascal wager.
God is a concept invented by man, as is religion.

Pascal's Wager is just a preposterous as saying you wager your life by not getting the jab.

Waitup says

lot of atheists on this forum

When was that ... ever the case?

Some can believe in an ultimate source of the universe, but not label it as some old man with a bread, like the New Hampshire rock formation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain

Basically, this guy ...

I'm not an atheist, I am agnostic. I can't know if God exists. I can't know which of thousands of religions is more correct IF God exists. I can't know anything about God even if he exists.

If a follower of a particular religion thinks that his religion is correct while others are not, then he is self-centered and delusional. Who are members of the CORRECT religion, Eastern Orthodox? Catholic? Judaic? Muslim? Buddhist? Hinduist? Greco-Roman religion? Mithra followers? Zoroastrians? Mormons? Scientologists? Raelians? etc etc etc

About Pascal's wager, how many religious people stick to rules of their religion? Which religion should it be? Too many unknowns for a wager.