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Author Topic:   Pascal's Wager - Any Way to Live a Life
bernerbits
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Message 14 of 126 (432850)
11-08-2007 4:57 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by Jon
11-08-2007 7:17 AM


Which god are you going to believe in?
The only one there can be.
There are plenty of gods out there...
Nope. Can be only one.
OK, but which one can there only be? YHWH? Jesus? Zeus? Odin? And why can't there be more than one? Are you prepared to make a case for your a priori monotheism? And anyway what does this post have to do with the intellectual honesty of Pascal's Wager?

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bernerbits
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Message 15 of 126 (432851)
11-08-2007 5:02 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by iceage
11-07-2007 8:18 PM


Back when I was a Bible-Believing Christian(TM), I was scared to death that I was going to hell because on some level I knew there was a part of me that didn't believe it. As soon as I learned of Pascal's Wager, I was convinced that I could use it to prove to myself that I truly believed. Basically, I used Pascal's Wager as a means of arriving at that belief and quashing that nagging voice. Not the disbelief one, the I'm going to hell one. Pascal's Wager kept me hanging onto my Christian faith long after I stopped actively practicing.
The moment I stopped and examined Pascal's Wager, I realized how flimsy it was. So I stopped using it and decided to finally be honest about what I believe, and declared myself agnostic. But at face value, it's pretty appealing to anyone who already believes, and not necessarily easy to deconstruct on command unless you've already heard about it.
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