(February 17, 2014 at 8:16 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: I never said it was a dangerous injury that you can be dealt the point is you can apply Pascals Wager to a certain extent. I can say you'll feel foolish when you're proved 100% wrong seeing as that's the only thing that can happen to you. If you were right you would cease to exist and therefore not be proved right.
Bollocks.
There are all sorts of possibilities.
What if we're both wrong and the Muslims are right? What if the Buddhists are right and we both come back as snails? What if the Scientologists are right (they're not)?
What if EVERYBODY's wrong, and there is a God but not one who's ever revealed his existence to anybody?
Leaving aside the sheet idiocy of Pascal assuming that God could be fooled by a false profession of faith, the whole argument's based on a false dichotomy. It really is the weakest of ALL apologetic arguments (and that's up against some stiff competition).
