{"id":51,"date":"2007-08-18T18:51:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2007-08-18T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T18:51:24","slug":"atheists-must-be-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Must be Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only belief system that <strong>must<\/strong> be right is that held by atheists.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the only logical conclusion to draw from the available evidence: they are among the most vocal, most argumentative, most defensive, most worried group of people on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>If I, a Christian, am wrong about the existence God, what have I lost? Time on Sundays, time reading the Bible, time trying to convert my friends&#8230; but only time. If a Muslim is wrong about the existence of Allah all he has lost is time. If the Jew, Hindu, animist, Mormon, etc are <strong>all<\/strong> wrong about the existence of any god they&#8217;ve only wasted time.<\/p>\n<p>But if an atheist is wrong about the non-existence of any God, he&#8217;s in for a heap of hurt: eternal damnation, Hell, reincarnation as a rat, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of the atheists in the world, I could pray there is no God. Of course, I don&#8217;t know who I&#8217;d pray <em>to<\/em>. But for the sake of those who believe there is no God &#8211; of any kind &#8211; I could hope they&#8217;re right, and that I&#8217;ve just been wasting thousands of hours of my life I could better spend on me.<\/p>\n<p>I am convinced there <em>is<\/em> a God, though, so the only logical course of action I can take is to try convince others. After all, if I&#8217;m wrong, I just spent a bunch of time doing something that doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>But if I&#8217;m right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only belief system that must be right is that held by atheists. It&#8217;s the only logical conclusion to draw from the available evidence: they are among the most vocal, most argumentative, most defensive, most worried group of people on the planet. If I, a Christian, am wrong about the existence God, what have I &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atheists Must be Right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[883],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}