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Author Topic:   Pascal's Wager - Any Way to Live a Life
PaulK
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Message 10 of 126 (432765)
11-08-2007 2:50 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by iceage
11-07-2007 8:18 PM


By definition Pascal's Wager requires an act of intellectual dishonesty. It requires that you should abandon an honest assessment of the evidence in favour of acquiring a particular belief in the hope that it will directly or indirectly bring rewards.
The most popular forms, where the belief itself is important, even assume an unjust God for this very reason. Yet how can you possibly trust an unjust God to pay up ? Indeed how can you know that God won't punish those who implicltly accuse Him of injustice, by using or believing the argument ? Or that the wager is not a trap set by God for those who value the reward over honesty ? It seems that sticking to honesty is a safer course. A just God would never punish that in itself.

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