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Pascal's wager redux.....
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RE: Pascal's wager redux.....
Yes, the number of crazy rituals one could come up with in order to get into a mythical heaven is infinite. If someone claimed that you had to jump up & down on a pogo stick for 5 minutes every day in order to get into heaven, there would be another person claiming that you have to jump up & down on a pogo stick for 10 minutes every day and those 5 minute pogo stick jumpers are all heretics.

Pascal's Wager is not a good reason to believe anyway, because it automatically assumes that the religion the person proposing it is the one true religion, and believing "just in case" is not true devotion to a religion. I could pretend to go through all the rituals involved in the Christian religion, but my heart wouldn't be into it because in the back of my mind I'd still be believing that it's all a bunch of hocus pocus.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 13, 2013 at 3:08 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Esquilax - September 13, 2013 at 5:19 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 13, 2013 at 5:22 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Jiggerj - September 14, 2013 at 6:34 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 13, 2013 at 5:24 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 13, 2013 at 5:30 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 13, 2013 at 5:44 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Silver - September 13, 2013 at 5:46 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 13, 2013 at 5:48 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Doubting Thomas - September 13, 2013 at 9:18 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Godschild - September 14, 2013 at 1:18 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 14, 2013 at 4:22 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Godschild - September 15, 2013 at 11:27 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Esquilax - September 16, 2013 at 4:58 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Tonus - September 14, 2013 at 9:40 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Walking Void - September 14, 2013 at 10:14 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Minimalist - September 14, 2013 at 10:52 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 14, 2013 at 11:15 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Minimalist - September 14, 2013 at 11:52 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 14, 2013 at 12:05 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Minimalist - September 15, 2013 at 11:45 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by DeistPaladin - September 15, 2013 at 11:59 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Cyberman - September 16, 2013 at 12:17 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by ManMachine - September 16, 2013 at 9:10 am

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