RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited
April 10, 2015 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2015 at 9:53 pm by Bad Wolf.)
(April 10, 2015 at 9:43 pm)datc Wrote: Well, insofar as "the destiny of man is perpetual self- and world-improvement in nature, virtue, and happiness," no, I do not in the context of this discussion and the original post worry about other versions of hell and other conceptions of the afterlife, because I find the conception I have proposed to be most plausible.
Cutting through the bullshit, so no, you don't worry about other religions and their hells. And the reason you don't is because you don't believe any other religion to be true. But you don't know this. You don't know if your religion is the right one. You don't know if the Muslims are right or the Jews or the Hindus or damn Moonies. And that is why Pascal's wager fails. What if there is a god who invented all these other religions simply to test us, and he rewards the skeptical thinking unbelievers and punishes believers? You haven't even considered that. That is why you and Pascal fail.
Please read through this, it gives many reasons why Pascal's wager fails:
http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?t...%27s_Wager
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'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
