RE: Cthulhu's Wager
February 14, 2012 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2012 at 3:29 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
Same here. They're the ones making a conscious decision to pray five times a day.
The problem with Pascal's Wager is not self-respect, dignity, and wasted time so much as it is the problem of trying to make yourself believe in God in the first place. It would be like trying to make yourself believe that Santa Claus is a real magical person who actually does live up at the North Pole and delivers toys to children around the world once a year. You know there's so much wrong with the myth and the fact that it was a made-up fairy tale that you just can't make yourself believe it, and any motions you go through will just be pretending. I'd much rather not lie to myself.
Besides, if God really wants me to worship him, all he's got to do is show me that he exists and is worthy of worship.
The problem with Pascal's Wager is not self-respect, dignity, and wasted time so much as it is the problem of trying to make yourself believe in God in the first place. It would be like trying to make yourself believe that Santa Claus is a real magical person who actually does live up at the North Pole and delivers toys to children around the world once a year. You know there's so much wrong with the myth and the fact that it was a made-up fairy tale that you just can't make yourself believe it, and any motions you go through will just be pretending. I'd much rather not lie to myself.
Besides, if God really wants me to worship him, all he's got to do is show me that he exists and is worthy of worship.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
