"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." -Albert Camus, an atheist existentialist. Which way would you prefer to live your life of these two alternatives?
Of course, in this one life in this universe, I would rather live my life as though there is no God and simply die. I find the belief that you can find out that there isn't a God once you've died as absurd, because for that to be true, there must be an afterlife, which calls into question how there can be an afterlife without a God. If by God existing would change the course of the universe, then I would definitely believe in him and die to find out that he exists. Of course, that isn't an answer to the question, since my selection isn't an option.
My answer to the question would be to live like there is no God and die to find out there is one. The reason why is because I think that if God made the evidence for him so minimal, then surely he would forgive me for not believing me and reward me for doing good based on not what religion has subscribed for me, but based on what I thought was best on what an objective meaning of "good" would entail, assuming of course, that God would even give meaning to the word "good". I would imagine that he would be a deist God: one that created the universe and gave us the resources to live in, but let us choose how we live ourselves. If not a deist God, I would not be surprised if he did not support an objective definition of "good" especially considering how hard it is for me to wrap my head around the problem of evil, in which case I would not call him God and would not worship him.
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