Fake News Reporting Thread

[spambot]

So.... being religious is like buying a lottery ticket?

[Ming]

said the man who has ruled out every possibility of God's existence despite overwhelming evidence

Overwhelming evidence of God's existence...
Hmmm... since when. Even the church falls back onto "faith" since there is no actual proof that there is a God.

[Aeson]

Im confused. Is it a parody of a Christian parody news site, or is it just a B rate Christian parody news site?

[rah]

My favorite was the observation that you were more likely to die in a vending machine accident than winning the current jackpot. So after the they announced there was a winner this morning, I'm wondering when they will discover an accident victim.

[Aeson]

Well if it’s like the lotto and you don’t have to get them in order, it increases the likelihood of proving GOD exists tremendously... because DOG.

[Kidlicious]

Well if it’s like the lotto and you don’t have to get them in order, it increases the likelihood of proving GOD exists tremendously... because DOG.

So according to Aeson you should only play the lottery if you can prove that you are going to win. No wonder you are confused about the article.

[Aeson]

You’re making less sense than usual ...

[Proteus_MST]

So according to Aeson you should only play the lottery if you can prove that you are going to win. No wonder you are confused about the article.

There is always a difference between risk and reward:
Subscribing to fundamentalist religion (like evangelical Christianity and Islam) is more akin to spending a large part of your fortune on a lottery (in contrast to spending 5$ or less on a lottery)

If someone would spend a large part of his fortune on a lottery (with a less than 1 % chance to win) he would rightfully be ridiculed

[Proteus_MST]

ROFLMAO
If this were the USA, these people surely would be potential Trump-Voters

A shop for E-Cigarettes in Belgium.
SIx robbers enter the shopo and want to rob it. The owner of the shop tells the would-be robbers that he currently has only little money in his registry and that they should come back in the evening around 6:30 PM, as then his registry surely would be filled with 2-3k Euro.
Well, the robbers came back in the evening ... and, not surprisingly for anyone with at least half a brain ... they were greeted by the police and arrested

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45958404

(according to Ben, I guess, the arrests were unjustified, because "do it or don't do it, there is no try" ... and the robbers didn't actually successfully rob the shop )

[Kidlicious]

There is always a difference between risk and reward:
Subscribing to fundamentalist religion (like evangelical Christianity and Islam) is more akin to spending a large part of your fortune on a lottery (in contrast to spending 5$ or less on a lottery)

If someone would spend a large part of his fortune on a lottery (with a less than 1 % chance to win) he would rightfully be ridiculed

Not really. You haven't thought it through. It depends on what you want. I had an Econ professor that played the lottery a lot. If you want to get rich, and you don't want to work at it, it's the best chance. Likewise, if you want eternal life, believing in God is a small price to pay in comparison. But you haven't thought that through either.

[Proteus_MST]

Not really. You haven't thought it through. It depends on what you want. I had an Econ professor that played the lottery a lot. If you want to get rich, and you don't want to work at it, it's the best chance. Likewise, if you want eternal life, believing in God is a small price to pay in comparison. But you haven't thought that through either.

With chances far below 1% for a single ticket?
Example:
According to CNBC the chance for winning the US Mega Jackpot are 1:300 Mio

Spending everything you can on such a Lottery are just a guarantee to lose a lot of your money ... someone who would spend all of this money in a savings book or stock portfolio will in almost all cases end with more wealth in his hands than someone who would try his luck at the slim chances of a lottery.

Similarly with the belief in god ... with sufficiently slim chances of an existence of the god of a certain belief system, the risk reward pendulum swings more and more in the "risk"-zone the more you invest in your religion.
(actually even more so with the belif in a religion than with buying lottery tickets: With lottery tickets, the more you buy, the higher your chances of winning (at least enough to make it more of a breakeven and not a total loss) ... with religion your chances of the existence of the god of your religion are fixed ... no amount of time, work or money you spend on the religion will increase the chances of an existence of "your" god)

[-Jrabbit]

Not really. You haven't thought it through. It depends on what you want. I had an Econ professor that played the lottery a lot. If you want to get rich, and you don't want to work at it, it's the best chance. Likewise, if you want eternal life, believing in God is a small price to pay in comparison. But you haven't thought that through either.

So you're saying your belief in God is driven by cynical selfishness. Not exactly a surprise, but good to know.

[Kidlicious]

So you're saying your belief in God is driven by cynical selfishness. Not exactly a surprise, but good to know.

No I didn't say that. It is good for you to know a mistruth? That's Democrats for you.

I believe for many reasons. When you believe you see signs, but if you don't you probably don't see any signs.

[Kidlicious]

With chances far below 1% for a single ticket?
Example:
According to CNBC the chance for winning the US Mega Jackpot are 1:300 Mio

Spending everything you can on such a Lottery are just a guarantee to lose a lot of your money ... someone who would spend all of this money in a savings book or stock portfolio will in almost all cases end with more wealth in his hands than someone who would try his luck at the slim chances of a lottery.

Similarly with the belief in god ... with sufficiently slim chances of an existence of the god of a certain belief system, the risk reward pendulum swings more and more in the "risk"-zone the more you invest in your religion.
(actually even more so with the belif in a religion than with buying lottery tickets: With lottery tickets, the more you buy, the higher your chances of winning (at least enough to make it more of a breakeven and not a total loss) ... with religion your chances of the existence of the god of your religion are fixed ... no amount of time, work or money you spend on the religion will increase the chances of an existence of "your" god)

There is no slim chance that God exists. The chance that God doesn't exist is slim. It's one thing to say that you don't believe in God because there is only a slim chance that he exists, but you have to be an atheist to think there is only a slim chance that he exists. That is just utter nonsense.

I'm not going to bother much explaining to you why playing the lotto can be a rational decision, but I will give you a hint and then it's up to you. Everyone has their own utility curves

[rah]

No I didn't say that.

Actually, you did.

if you want eternal life, believing in God is a small price to pay

But then like their slimy fuehrer, Trumpsters will continue to deny things that are a matter of public record.

[spambot]

maybe there is a god, but he despises gullible idiots who believe things without evidence and sends them to hell