RE: Adopting Religion for fear of what may transpire post death?
November 27, 2011 at 4:38 am
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2011 at 4:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A wager, as the story goes, developed whilst playing a game of dice. It seems that christian apologists have been looking for ways to game whatever system they thought would grant them authority since time immemorial. Philosophy, science, whatever. Once you understand the rules you can start to form a strategy that allows you to circumvent them, lol. Calvinists, for example, have turned this into performance art, as have "creation scientists".
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