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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by antihero on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:58AM (#12488831)
Isn't using Pascal's wager to support faith kind of broken due to the idea that for any possibility that there's a God who rewards you with a happy life for belief in them, there's an equal possibility that there's an evil God, who punishes you for belief in them?
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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by jandrese on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @02:21PM (#12490904)
Pascal's wager also supposes that faith is "free". It doesn't factor in the cost like having to dismiss all modern notions of Biology in certain cases. You have to weigh the chance of eternal damnation against the possibility of wasting your only life (no afterlife) laboring under false pretenses.
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