RE: What should replace Pascal's wager in my opinion.
August 28, 2012 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 7:00 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 28, 2012 at 6:42 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:They teach you shouldn't be basing your life on what you don't know but trying to attain knowledge and follow what you know.
That is the precise opposite of what religions teach. Religions are faith based,which means based on authority and dogma,rather than reason or proof. Many Christians for example actually claim[ from the pulpit] that reason is the enemy of faith.
It can't be a coincidence that the only unforgivable sin is disbelief. You can rape, murder, covet oxen and all the rest as much as you like and then beg forgiveness, after all there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth and all that swaddling - but have the audacity not to believe and there's no hope for you.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
