You atheists should beleive in God, because there is a 50/50 chance of him!
What is Pascal's wager, I am a fundie who does not know!
2007-02-24 12:30:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-02-24 12:34:05 · update #1
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2007-02-24 12:49:20 · update #2
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2007-02-24 12:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Wager is the proposition of one Blaise Pascal, a brilliant 17th-century scientist who should have stuck to math and physics rather than getting into Christian apologetics. But noooo, Blaise had to go and have one of those woo-woo "mystical experiences." Sigh.
The Wager proposes that belief is a good gamble to take, because the gambler wins all if he's right (that is, if God exists and the gambler makes it to heaven) but loses nothing if he's wrong (that is, if God does not exist no matter how many people believe in him). On the flip side, if the gambler chooses to believe that God does not exist and he turns out to be wrong, then it's eternity-on-the-grill for him.
It's a silly argument for a number of reasons, including:
1) Which god should one believe in? what if you pick the wrong one? and
2) Wouldn't a god be able to detect the difference between genuine belief and "just-in-case" hypocrisy? and
3) Do believers really want to teach their children how to compartmentalize their thinking in this way?
Now you know.
2007-02-24 20:42:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's an utterly flawed argument.
It goes something like this;
I should pray to and believe in god because if he does exist, then I'll get in his good books and go to heaven. If he doesn't exist, I won't lose anything.
But the argument proceeds from a false assumption; that god exists. Since of course he doesn't.
2007-02-24 20:32:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the seventeenth century the mathematician Blaise Pascal formulated his infamous pragmatic argument for belief in God in Pensées. The argument runs as follows:
If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing (assuming that death is the absolute end), whereas if you correctly believe in God, you gain everything (eternal bliss). But if you correctly disbelieve in God, you gain nothing (death ends all), whereas if you erroneously disbelieve in God, you lose everything (eternal damnation).
May God bless you
2007-02-24 20:40:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pascal( a fundamentalist) said that "if there is not a God, and i lived my life as a Christian, and there is nothing after death, i have lost nothing, because i lived a good life. but if i am right, and there is a God, then the athiest has lost everything because they will go to Hell for their unbelief"
2007-02-24 20:35:01 · answer #5 · answered by kelleygaither2000 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You atheists should beleive in God, because there is a 50/50 chance of him!
that is equivalent to not believing at all idiot.
2007-02-24 20:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by miss priss 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm downing some butterscotch schnapps. Dang good stuff!
~~Tips glass~~ Cheers!
2007-02-24 20:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
(takes a swig)
ok.....which god? There isn't a 50% chance of it being your god....whichever one that is.
2007-02-24 20:37:19 · answer #8 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Is we playin quarters or whAt?
Boy Howdy!
2007-02-24 20:33:12 · answer #9 · answered by Bubba One 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answered your own question.
2007-02-24 20:32:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are just trying to get everyone drunk Squishy!
2007-02-24 20:36:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋