Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35911608-20180627165340/@comment-35911608-20180627181822

DrBobSmith wrote: I was going to print it out and give it to her.

I look at it this way. It is a 2x2 decision matrix. God is or isn't opposite I follow what I think my Higher Power wants.

If there is no God and I live as I do, I have a decent life, happy even. I never know there isn't a God because I go to nothing.

If there is no God and I don't follow God then what do I do? Drink myself to death? Spread misery? Then I go to nowhere.

If there is a God and I turned my back on God then my eternity is bad.

If there is a God and I have lived my life according to the higher power of my understanding then all is well, eternal pay off.

I can never know there is no God here. So I must make book on it. No matter how bad the odds, it is still the only game in town because I can't lose betting on God.

That's a good way of looking at it. I do see it similarly in a personal manner, but my fear sources from other unknowns that persist and bother me, which are the examples I listed. Once I got myself caught in that "loop" once, it continued to bother me.