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What if you don't learn about all that and just be a good person? Isn't that what they want? For us to be good people???

That all depends on what is present in "the light" and "the darkness."

If we are to assume that the Biblical accounts of such things, meaning heaven and hell, then I would choose hell. Any god so capricious that he chooses those who stay in heaven with him based on nothing more than a belief with no good reason (faith) is simply not worth being around or spending time with. Any god that is okay with "punishing" people just because they did not happen to pick the right religion among the thousands currently followed in the world today by the time their mere 100 years or so of life are done is an evil sadistic egomaniac not worthy of anyone's time or worship.

The thing is, most atheists are atheists because we have learned about God and Jesus and all that. We look at the Christian mythology and see it no different from the Greek or Norse mythologies. Quite frankly, if there is a god, he, she, it or they must be better than the god described in the Bible if they are worthy to be called gods at all.

You mean if I am given a choice between eternal happiness or eternal turture which would I take? Difficult decision...

You make the mistake of thinking that atheists are people who have not learned about God and Jesus. Most atheists know more about God and Jesus than the average Christian does. If God is real and he wants people to believe then he knows that some people require proper evidence, not just an old book written by unknown authors years after the events they describe, and an even older book that is in parts ridiculous and in other parts horrific.

Your rephrasing of Pascal's Wager is unconvincing, cupcake.

I don't see you scrambling to keep the terms of a religion in which YOU don't believe, just on the off-chance that they will turn out to be right.

Do you meditate and try to follow the Five Precepts and the Eightfold Path in case Buddhists turn out to be right? Do you do puja and follow the rituals of Hinduism in case they are correct? Don't wait until it's too late - you might not get a choice!!!

Do you see how silly that is? Do you see how silly YOUR ridiculous attempt to urge us to hedge our bets is?

If I'm wrong, I'll be wrong. I'll take responsibility for it. If there's a choice, I'll make it then. I won't lie to myself or others in order to get a cushy spot in some fantasy heaven.

I will say that if the determinant between a plushy eternal life and eternal torture for a finite crime is whether or not I kissed your deity's butt while I was alive, then your deity is immoral and doesn't deserve worship.

I have learned about God and Jesus. I just do not believe the stories. Why can't I make the decision when I have the evidence I need to make it? Why on earth, or in heaven, for that matter, would I be expected to make the decision before I had the evidence I needed in order to make it. It is that madness which makes it so unbelievable.

I will choose to go to whatever place that will make me happy, but I don't think about that. I am only concerned with the Here and Now, which is real, as opposed to the "Maybe", which takes place only in the mind.

Seriously , I would go to hell because being in your so called heaven would be hell to me.

Why don't you just go out and live life rather than worring about dying , coz when you are dead its to late to start living

If I were stuck I'd say, "Hey, get me outta here!" And I wouldn't go to the dark or go to the light. I'd go to the bathroom to lose some girth and get unstuck.

Christians: When you die, if Zeus turns out to be real, wouldn't you want to learn about and worship him before it's too late?

There is no difference. I either get to go to hell and continuously relive whatever horrors they have dreamed up for me, for all of eternity, or I get to grovel at the feet of an evil dictator for all eternity.

What if in the end when everyone dies, the god of some ancient unknown pagan religion is the true god.

Wouldn't that be a surprise.