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Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
Quote:If an atheist posits that there in some God to defeat Pascal's wager, the atheist has just contradicted them self. So that argument does not defeat Pascal's wager.

You're missing the point. Pascal's Wager depends on there being only two possible outcomes: God A exists and x, y, and z follow or there is no god and no one loses. I can posit other possible gods -- with just as little evidence as you use to posit Yahweh/Christ -- to show that Pascal's either/or proposition is arbitrary. I'm merely adopting your framework and applying as little critical thinking and evidence to it as Christians do when they wheel out Pascal's sad, tired old fallacy.

As I said, it's a transparently bad argument.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain - by Crossless1 - October 1, 2013 at 8:30 am

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