RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited
April 10, 2015 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2015 at 5:17 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 10, 2015 at 4:35 pm)datc Wrote: It it's not worth it (for you), then by that very fact you cannot get it.
1. How do you know that the method to get an afterlife is what you have outlined here on this forum?
2. How do you know there aren't other criteria to get an afterlife other than your method?
3. How do you know there aren't other afterlives in addition to the one you believe exists, that are as good or better than yours, and your method will not let you have one of those?
4. How do you know that the way to be left out of an afterlife is to be credulous and gullible, and to fall for idiotic arguments like Pascal's Wager?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
