Did Pascal really think about it?

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When you cannot demonstrate god, you have to turn to cheap stunts like "you can't know for sure that he isn't there."

It's basically the beating heart of all religious arguments now; arguments from ignorance, deistic sophistry, and false equivocations. If we aren't hearing about how much science and atheism are religions, it's an attempt to poke holes in our current knowledge, as if that proves god.

Truth is, there hasn't been a single truthful argument for the existence of god since science really started getting its shit together. Religion has already hit its breaking point in terms of argumentation, imagine how much harder its going to get to defend that position, once we start peering into those places they hidden their god thus far.

Eventually all they'll have left is "beyond the reach of science," which is already the favored tactic of dopes like Sword of Christ and this Disciplus bloke. Vagaries and word games.