Why Do You Believe?

[Abraham Reagan]

I'll refer to Albert Camus, a French Nobel Prize-winning philosopher:

 "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."

[Abraham Reagan]

I'll refer to Albert Camus, a French Nobel Prize-winning philosopher:

 "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."

Given that Camus was Catholic, I don't think he was just referring to God in the general sense. He would've been talking about the God of Isaac and Abraham, the God that came to earth both perfectly human and perfectly divine and died for the sins of man.

When you look at it that way, you find the real point of his quote. I'd rather believe in God wrongly than not believe and end up going to hell.

[Abraham Reagan]

Well when the question, "How can you live out your life as if there is a god when there are countless iterations of what god is and what it wants?" it stands to reason that the person, afleitch and you, asking this, perceived the "God" in the quote to mean god in the general sense, pertaining to no particular religion. My point was that the quote was referring to the God of Christianity, and therefore doesn't beg the "which god should I follow" question.