Agnostic Atheism Wager
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The Agnostic Atheism Wager was written in response to Pascal's Wager.
It states:
Whether or not you believe in God, you should live your life with love, kindness, compassion, mercy and tolerance while trying to make the world a better place. If there is no God, you have lost nothing and will have made a positive impact on those around you. If there is a benevolent God reviewing your life, you will be judged on your actions and not just on your ability to blindly believe, when there is a significant lack of evidence of any one god's existence.
It is often expanded upon to state that a God that would judge against a good person purely on the basis on not believing in him or worshipping him, would not be a God worth staying in Heaven with.
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- Source: "An Agnostic Atheist"
- An invocation of this wager at "de-conversion", a site for recovering believers.
