What does it take to believe in jesus christ?

[Melchisedec]

[quote name='jezic' date='Apr 15 2005, 10:19 PM'] i didn't realize that the whole atheist thing was so complicated....

though, one simple question, is there any evidence that God doesn't exist? [/quote]
You missed the point completely. Some say yes, the non-existence of god is a provable position, others only contend that gods such as yahweh and allah can be proved not to exist and we cannot not make claims against gods we do not know of yet. Here is a resource on [url="http://www.strongatheism.net/"]Strong Atheism[/url].

[Melchisedec]

[quote name='Paphnutius' date='Apr 16 2005, 07:39 AM'] You are right, it is not an arguement, but ought to make you think... [/quote]
[quote]The main but not the only fault of the argument is that Pascal assumes that there are only two alternative bets; become a Roman Catholic or not. But on his own basic premise of total ignorance, the set of conceivable alternative cosmic systems, all of the hypothesis is equally probable, must be infinite, as must be the subset of those promising eternal bliss, and threatening eternal torment, respectively, to reward, and to punish an infinite range of different favored and disfavored way of life. This refutation is, on Pascal's own assumptions, decisive[/quote]

The problem with this is that even is you assume a god, you still must wager on which god it is. Just something I wanted to add in just to make you think . Carry on.