Pascal's wager redux.....

[max-greece]

[Esquilax]

Eh. This is fun and all, but given that the real odds are one in infinity- after all, once we've detached ourselves from logic by accepting that a religion might be true, then literally any form of silly practice can be attached to any made up deity we want as a criterion for getting into any number of made up heavens- I'll just continue doing what I'm doing.

I've got an exactly equal, statistically insignificant chance of going to the "correct" afterlife when I die, so why should I worry?

[max-greece]

Eh. This is fun and all, but given that the real odds are one in infinity- after all, once we've detached ourselves from logic by accepting that a religion might be true, then literally any form of silly practice can be attached to any made up deity we want as a criterion for getting into any number of made up heavens- I'll just continue doing what I'm doing.

I've got an exactly equal, statistically insignificant chance of going to the "correct" afterlife when I die, so why should I worry?

Well you're just not playing the game properly and I want my ball back.

[LastPoet]

Pascal wager, not a wager I would take. You should worship pectora, the goddess of boobs, what do you have to lose?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Pascal wager, not a wager I would take. You should worship pectora, the goddess of boobs, what do you have to lose?

Was she in Total Recall?

[max-greece]

Pascal wager, not a wager I would take. You should worship pectora, the goddess of boobs, what do you have to lose?

Was she in Total Recall?

Ironically I don't remember.

[Kitan Etos]

pectora, the goddess of boobs

First, why is her name not capitalized?

Secondly, why when mentioning pectorals, it is in reference to the male muscular chest? I have never heard female mammary glands referred to as pectorals.

[LastPoet]

That's Latin for ya.

[Doubting Thomas]

Yes, the number of crazy rituals one could come up with in order to get into a mythical heaven is infinite. If someone claimed that you had to jump up & down on a pogo stick for 5 minutes every day in order to get into heaven, there would be another person claiming that you have to jump up & down on a pogo stick for 10 minutes every day and those 5 minute pogo stick jumpers are all heretics.

Pascal's Wager is not a good reason to believe anyway, because it automatically assumes that the religion the person proposing it is the one true religion, and believing "just in case" is not true devotion to a religion. I could pretend to go through all the rituals involved in the Christian religion, but my heart wouldn't be into it because in the back of my mind I'd still be believing that it's all a bunch of hocus pocus.

[Godscreated]

Pascal's Wager is not a good reason to believe anyway, because it automatically assumes that the religion the person proposing it is the one true religion, and believing "just in case" is not true devotion to a religion. I could pretend to go through all the rituals involved in the Christian religion, but my heart wouldn't be into it because in the back of my mind I'd still be believing that it's all a bunch of hocus pocus.

I agree, God in this case the God of Christianity is not selling an insurance policy, Christianity doesn't work that way. Salvation is through grace by faith, this is a gift of real belief, so banking on an insurance policy will only get you a disappointing result, in this life and the next.

GC