(October 1, 2013 at 8:22 am)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: The bad analogy argument does not defeat Pascal's argument at all.
And your reply does not address anything anyone's said to you so far.
Pascal's argument is only convincing to someone already convinced. To everyone outside that bubble, it is not only ridiculously easy to refute, it was already refuted decades ago.
In fact, I may be wrong on this but didn't Pascal himself only come up with his wager in order to satirise it? I think I came across that somewhere.
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.'
