Believing in something "just in case" is the most sincere form of belief

Please don't involve me in your psychosis always seems to work

Usually the people asking are Christian. If so I tell them that if the god in the Bible exists I still wouldn’t worship him. We have only his word that he is a good and loving god and I see no proof of that on earth. We were told that we suffer because we are sinners but every creature with a nervous system suffers every day. If there is a god he is the most evil creature ever.

Pascal's wager doesn't interest me. It essentially boils down to someone holding a gun to your head asking you "well what if there ARE bullets in the clip?" A threat is a threat, no matter how it is packaged, and that isn't any reason to believe something that cannot be backed by evidence or logic. You can ask them "what if blind faith alone isn't a good enough reason to get into this heaven of yours, considering there are a multitude of child rapists and murderers who fervently believe that god exists and that Jesus died for them?" As Matt Dilahunty phrased it, if it turned out he was wrong and there was a god, then that entity would have a lot to answer for if it was the same one mentioned in the bible. And if god chose to toss him into hell for using his critical reasoning skills then at least he would be secure in the knowledge that he was vastly more moral than that thuggish monster.

If there is a god the afterlife will be an endless scream of misery or agony.
He may put you in the basement. Imagine what he'll do to the people he likes.

I always answer "I'm not wrong".

I have no need to justify not believing fairy tales to anyone, nor to answer their fairy tale related "what if"s.

"If there is a God, he is a malign thug." - Mark Twain

Typical answer by me, like yours.. "So what"

Which god?

I have many replies depending on who I am speaking to.
One of my favorites goes something like this...

I live my life by a strong moral code. I treat myself and the people around me with kindness and respect. So, if at the end of time I find myself at the pearly gates and I get refused because I didn’t give my life to Jesus.... Well fuck your god them I’d rather dance with the devil.

I think much about the question, "What if there is a God?" My response is whether He would look upon me and say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." My hope is that God would say that my journey to understanding was genuine; I sought evidence and found it lacking. But nonetheless, I kept looking and was a good humanitarian because what I did toward others was good and right--not because of an eternal reward. And that, ironically, would be true Faith.

Hum let's see. Last I checked there are more then 3400 gods but that was a while ago so there are probably a lot more by now. Looks to me it's us, the human race, against them. I'm a marine. I'll take more of them down before they even know what's going down.
But back to reality. I'd really love to kill a god. I here once you do you get it's power.

I have honestly never gotten this question, but if I did, I'd ask what my questioner would do if he believes in the wrong god.

The way I see it if God does exist then he is either malevolent or ineffective! If he is omnipotent and chooses not to act to save children or remove mistakes such as pedophiles, rapists and murderers then he is malevolent! If he is not omnipotent then he is simply an alien being, more advanced perhaps, but definitely not to be worshiped! It's irrelevant though, I'm not wrong and even if I was I completely refute the idea that a deity would be interested in attendance! Any god that needs to be worshipped would surely appear in the sky and demand such! ?

I can’t force myself to believe in something without evidence. It’s just the way I’m wired. If there is a god, than he created me like this, so I have nothing to fear.

Then that god had better begin to worry, because I’ll be pissed.

I’ll admit I was wrong. We could all believe if just one thing happened. JUST SHOW UP!

All my friends would be with me so that's fine. Warm weather and BBQ I'm alright with it.

Your response comes across a little angry and defensive. Instead just ask them, "What if you are wrong and there is no God and you wasted all of that time for something that wasn't real?" or ask them, "If you are on the edge of a cliff and both of your children are about to fall off to their death and you can only save one, which would you choose?"

If so, I will give “him” a chance to apologize and explain his hate / anger issues.
Doesn’t mean that I’ll ever forgive him for being Gawd-awful.

If there is A God or Multiple Gods, I can explain to them that I had not found sufficient evidence to support belief in their existence, nor did anyone heed my pleas to communicate or help.

Additionally, if there is a single God who is omniscient, then I cannot have free will and only performed the functions I was given. I was also born with a condition known as Oppositional Defiance Disorder, or in layman's terms an innate distrust, distain, and rebelliousness towards authority, and I was also born with a heavy inclination towards logic and naturaistic definitions. Thus again, my programming is such that I'd be an atheist for any reason, exept for evidence or divine revelation.

I did have a crisis of faith in my youth and in looking at other religions, sitting in their places or worship and monitoring them, reading their scriptures, and seeing how their faithful act, I was also convinced in a lack of belief of any gods for another reason. A God who commands what people cannot do, yet does nothing but sit idly by while they kidnap, rape, murder, destroy literature and art, and waits until they die to punish them eternally, is not a loving parent, but a veangful judge, jury, and executioner. If I was to believe the faithful that God revealed himself to some, but not others, and only in uncorroborated, or contradictorily corroborated events, then God dispays a lack of wisdom, morality, or foresight that would still disprove the existence of any god. It would only prove there is someone with supernatural powers, and their lack of doing so in modern times, would show us evidence that they no longer live.

Also, my living a good and moral life for the sake or me wanting to be a positive influence on this world, and helping people through honestly, compassion, and lawfulness should be enough to it me in anyone's good graces, and if it isn't enough, then they aren't morally worthy of my consideration either. I'd probably spend eternity attempting to overthrow them. I couldn't suffer eternity with an immoral monster in charge, no matter how good I am. In fact, it would be my inherent goodness that would drive me to betray an immoral god or gods.

So to summarize, my lack of belief in any gods is emotional, physical, logical, moral, genetic, and truthful. If I'm wrong, then I only take responsibility for what I've done, and not predetermined data I have no control over. Same as if you got to an afterlife and entrance to the next step was barred because you're a natural blonde, or left handed.

Great.. then i can send more thoughts and prayers!!

Eric ensures there is no god.

Depending on MY mood, i ignore,laugh, roll my eyes, and sometimes I say something..

She would sure be in trouble with me.