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Please do not delete this post this is a genuine theological problem as far as I can tell and is a genuine question I am not using it as a forum I’m using it to ask a question.
Religions prohibit gambling but it seems as though religion itself can be a gamble. Choosing one or many gods out of the tens of thousands that have ever existed is taking a huge bet with your immortal soul as in the words of the Simpsons “what if we chose the wrong religion. Each week we just make god madder and madder.”
Is there a name for this conundrum and any relevant debate in relation to it. How might a theologian explain it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.98.87.232 ( talk) 23:32, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.– Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 09:07, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
You've conflated a couple separate meanings of "gamble". Religions that forbid gambling are forbidding the most common sense of the word, the financial activity that's the subject of the gambling article. The broader sense of "taking a risk" is significantly different, and it would seem a bit bizarre for a religion to forbid all risk. Nyttend ( talk) 23:24, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
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Please do not delete this post this is a genuine theological problem as far as I can tell and is a genuine question I am not using it as a forum I’m using it to ask a question.
Religions prohibit gambling but it seems as though religion itself can be a gamble. Choosing one or many gods out of the tens of thousands that have ever existed is taking a huge bet with your immortal soul as in the words of the Simpsons “what if we chose the wrong religion. Each week we just make god madder and madder.”
Is there a name for this conundrum and any relevant debate in relation to it. How might a theologian explain it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.98.87.232 ( talk) 23:32, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.– Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 09:07, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
You've conflated a couple separate meanings of "gamble". Religions that forbid gambling are forbidding the most common sense of the word, the financial activity that's the subject of the gambling article. The broader sense of "taking a risk" is significantly different, and it would seem a bit bizarre for a religion to forbid all risk. Nyttend ( talk) 23:24, 5 July 2023 (UTC)