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Posted by David Fairthorne on Mon Aug 27 15:59:35 2007, in response to Re: nonsense about atheism, posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Aug 27 13:23:33 2007. Doing the safe thing isn't going to work. Assuming there is an all-powerful God, He* most assuredly will know that your "belief" is an insincere, cover-all-bases ploy. Not good enough.Doing the "safe thing" is known as "Pascal's wager". According to Wikipedia: The Wager posits that it is a better "bet" to believe that God exists than not to believe, because the expected value of believing (which Pascal assessed as infinite) is always greater than the expected value of not believing. End Wiki quote But Pascal's wager assumes that there is either one God or no God. If there are many gods, and especially if there are many competing gods (as there certainly were in the early history of religion), Pascal's wager would not apply. In the holy books there are many cases where people came to grief (sometimes a fate worse than death) by worshipping the wrong god(s). |
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