A) Atheism is on this as a baseline for the absence of the positions
B) It would be the same for an atheist to find that which is most likely to be true
C) Pascal's Wager not only makes no claim about truth, it necessarily is incapable of leading anyone towards it in any sense. (if any one of the faith-based positions is true, and someone starts from the null hypothesis, then they have no better than a random chance of landing on the right one)
B) It would be the same for an atheist to find that which is most likely to be true
C) Pascal's Wager not only makes no claim about truth, it necessarily is incapable of leading anyone towards it in any sense. (if any one of the faith-based positions is true, and someone starts from the null hypothesis, then they have no better than a random chance of landing on the right one)
(October 3, 2013 at 2:41 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:(October 3, 2013 at 12:41 pm)TheBeardedDude Wrote: If you want to use Pascal's wager, you have to apply it evenly to all possibilities. Would it not be safer with respect to Islam to believe in Islam?
Then you realize that Pascal's wager is utterly useless. It is no more likely to lead you to any real conclusion whatsoever.
For atheists and agnostics, the multiple "believe or damned" do not change the risk of infinite loss.
For the believer all that is needed is to find the only true one. That is easy.