(April 7, 2015 at 4:22 pm)datc Wrote: The argument makes no reference to any particular religion or to the idea of "religion" at all. Insofar as it talks about God, it builds up a slice of him, that is, unlocks some of his attributes (creative, etc.), in the process of showing the reasonableness of this God's existence.
Pascal's Wager doesn't make a case for the existence of a god. It attempts to make the case for the reasonableness of belief in a god over no belief in a god, and fails at doing so, but it doesn't even try to prove the existence of a god. Unless you truly think "it would be bad for atheists if my god existed" is an argument for god, rather than the appeal to consequences it really is.
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