When you post some version of Pascal's Wager ("Why not believe, just in case?", for those of you in Rio Linda) for the forty-eleven-dozenth time here, do you believe that you've come up with an original question? Or are you simply unaware that this little "thought experiment" was soundly trounced CENTURIES ago?
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2007-08-17 01:43:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-08-17 01:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-15 22:21:24 · answer #2 · answered by dunston 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Wager is just utterly stupid as an argument for believing in God. Essentially the wager claims to save one from judgement when the scriptures so clearly say otherwise. It's ironic that any Christian who hangs their eternity based on this rubbish would in fact wind-up in hell instead. Just amazingly stupid.
2007-08-17 01:58:12 · answer #3 · answered by RIFF 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I defy Pascal's Wager everyday of my life, fair enough I am Wiccan but even so, I will never have a "just in case" clause added to my psyche...
Blessed Be... )O(
2007-08-17 02:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by Bunge 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are making the same mistake as your interlocuters inasmuch as you are not situating Pascal's wager within its proper context. As an apologetic, Pascal considered the wager to be ad hoc, not a proof or some kind of certitude.
2007-08-17 02:10:17 · answer #5 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hey, don't mock those people who feel that it is worth it to waste their 100 years on earth preparing just in case they don't rot in their graves after death like the rest of us.
2007-08-17 02:06:22 · answer #6 · answered by Fred 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of people without much education.
Also, for some, I'm sure it's their motivation for believing.
Most mature Christians understand that it's no reason at all. It's really a cop out.
Christians believe because they have a relationship, not because they're hedging their bets.
2007-08-17 01:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by William D 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It's a little early, but what the heck...
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2007-08-17 02:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by Char 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cheers !
2007-08-17 02:37:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who??
2007-08-17 02:15:46 · answer #10 · answered by BumbleBee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋