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AtheistCrusader

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10. Pascal's Wager is morally and logically bankrupt.
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 12:14 PM
Nov 2013

I know the point of this was a joke, and it is hilarious, especially something about that guy's accent/body language, but that aside...

Pascal's Wager isn't a 0:Infinity risk wager. Oh no. You don't get to just go to heaven, per these various faiths, if you just believe. That's not all that you have to invest in your wager. The cost is much higher. To accept the wager, you have to modify how you live, while alive, a great deal. Things you aren't allowed to do. Things you aren't supposed to tolerate. Dogma baggage you must live by, until you die.

So the wager has enormous up front investment, against that infinitesimal chance of something, anything, beyond death.

Your wager must account for picking the right rules, by the right sect, of the right faith, fulfilling those rules, AND the god must exist on the other side of death for you to win the wager.

It's ridiculous.

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Sod off! Arugula Latte Nov 2013 #1
LOL....yup. A HERETIC I AM Nov 2013 #2
:-D frogmarch Nov 2013 #3
Haaaaa! RosettaStoned77 Nov 2013 #4
don't like the last word of the last panel... uriel1972 Nov 2013 #6
true RosettaStoned77 Nov 2013 #7
Each to their own I suppose...nt uriel1972 Nov 2013 #8
At least that poster has been banned Heddi Nov 2013 #16
Hilarious answer..... n/t defacto7 Nov 2013 #5
Love QI progressoid Nov 2013 #9
Pascal's Wager is morally and logically bankrupt. AtheistCrusader Nov 2013 #10
But the whole things collapses on this simple fact: Iggo Nov 2013 #11
Yeah you can temporary311 Nov 2013 #12
You and I have different understandings of the concept of belief, then. Iggo Nov 2013 #13
Humans are capable of self-deception. AtheistCrusader Nov 2013 #15
GMTA Fumesucker Nov 2013 #14
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