I mean look all the Gods we need to worship!!!! We'd have to spend half our day just praying to them! And plus some Gods are jealous like Jehovah who says you're to have no false idols. It's impossible to follow Pascal's wager!
Look at the list of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZVRpqm0Cl0
Oh and please don't respond with "Jesus is the only true God, he died for us." whimper*
2007-10-20 16:47:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You remember the character 'Benny' from the first Mummy movie? I think that's a really elegant inadvertent refutation of Pascal's Wager, and the only non-idiotic thing in that entire movie.
Ah, I knew I was paying six bucks for great CG and no plot, I don't know why I'm complaining.
2007-10-20 16:51:29 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That makes sense. But let's limit it, for the moment, to the Christian God (which is the only one that people mean when they wield Pascal's wager). To me, it's a lame proposition because one doesn't arrive at real belief by weighing pros and cons. It's just silly.
"If I don't believe in (the Christian) God and he doesn't exist, no harm done; but if I don't and he does, I'm in trouble. Then I should believe."
I agree, if conventional Christian dogma is all true, I'm well screwed, but at no point in the argument do I arrive at "I actually believe".
2007-10-20 16:54:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point.
In some African cultures the people only worship gods who are seen as capable of harming them if angered. As a consequence the christian Jesus is ignored because he is seen as benign.
2007-10-20 16:50:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's not impossible. The wager states that it is better to believe in ONE God than none at all. It's still a ridiculous reason to believe in any God.
2007-10-20 16:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its not hard for people IN HERE to follow Pascal Wager. In fact, people on here love it.
It's an excuse to DRINK!
2007-10-20 17:06:24 · answer #5 · answered by momof3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering the fact that Pascal was a Christian, he was probably talking about following the Christian God.
2007-10-20 16:50:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
For such a smart guy, Pascal was an idiot.
The idea that there is no cost to celebrating a God that doesn't exist is to completely give lip service to celebrating.
If it costs nothing, its worth nothing.
2007-10-20 16:50:42 · answer #7 · answered by Elana 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's impossible. When people say "Jesus is the only true God", they reveal that they, just like us, are incapable of taking a "chance" on that which we know to be nonsense. Of course atheists realize that the Judeo-Christian deity is also nonsense.
2007-10-20 16:50:30 · answer #8 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I would say it is impossible to follow. But not just because of all the gods...but because you can't MAKE yourself believe something that you don't believe. It's like trying to tickle yourself.
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2007-10-20 16:56:00 · answer #9 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In fact, most of them are probably jealous. So I'd say the best bet would be to worship none of them. At least then if one of them is real, he/she/it won't be AS angry.
2007-10-20 16:50:43 · answer #10 · answered by kenny 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋