OliverScholz wrote on news:alt.religion.emacs:
That’s not the whole story. According to Pascal (a 17th century Roman Catholic) you do have to guide your life in a different way to gain immortality after death. This basically means that you have to put an ascetic element into you style of life. So it is not true that “you’re no worse off than an atheist”. All he says is that – my own words -- this is a very good investment, though, because the potential interests are so incredibly high.
But this point of view has two problems:
Questions about questions. All in all I’d say it is a safe bet to use Emacs. You gain happiness on earth for sure and if there is really a heaven.el after M-x death, then you even gain eternal life.
Comment: This point of view has another flaw: If you are religious, then not only are you an enemy for the other religions, but they are enemies to you instead (you have to fight the others). If you are an atheist, you can just ignore their fantasies and concentrate on the really important parts of life 