(December 14, 2010 at 1:15 am)theVOID Wrote: Pascals wager is easily refuted by parallel argument
1. There could exist a trickster God
2. This trickster god values logic and reason to establish trickery, he has left no means by which anyone could logically conclude that a god exists.
3. He punishes people who come to illogical conclusions about god. All else go to heaven.
4. The only logical conclusion is that there is no epistemic justification for belief in the existence of god.
5. Therefore, those who believe in God go to hell and those who do not go to heaven.
Then a trickster God would also act against that logical argument itself since it says that he uses "logic and reason to establish trickery" (# 2). Isn't that paradoxical?
