(October 29, 2010 at 7:32 pm)Chuck Wrote:(October 29, 2010 at 7:26 pm)Jonah Wrote:(October 29, 2010 at 7:02 pm)Chuck Wrote: Yeah, if you need god answering your preyers to pass an exame, that means you need god to act like a Satan and screwed all the people who really knew the stuff by tempering with the score curve in your favor. But the cognative dissonance that allows a person born in the scientific age to believe in the literal truth of the bible probably wouldn't allow them to think too effectively about this quandray.
I can just hear the juicy obscurantist obfuscation now.
According to Christian beliefs, isn't it unethical to ask God to play the role of Satan on your behalf? Would that qualify as tempting God? If it does, then God wouldn't intercede in the matter anyway.
Luke 4:12 Wrote:And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
So either there is no god, or god won't listen to you. All of a sudden it seem like Pascal's hustler wager is not just a flip of a coin anymore, is it.
Hehe, I guess not!
I hadn't thought about Pascal's Wager until you mentioned it.
"If your god has to make peace with me in my final hour when he has my whole lifetime to prove his existence to me...do you think I should bother?"
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
