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Old 09-24-2009, 06:08 AM   #29
Mangoman

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Logic? Game theory? No. Pascal's Wager is not logical.
This is the old argument that goes, If there's no God, no one will punish me for believing in one. But, if there is a God, I might burn on the Lake of Fire for not believing. So, I'll play the odds.

The standard rebuttal to that is that you might be believing in the wrong God. There could be a satanic purple two-headed Donkey that rules supreme, and who's just itching to torture you for eternity for believing in your flavor of God.

So, on the surface Pascal's Wager makes sense, but it too has logical problems.
Pascal's wager is about belief, not specific religious dogmas.
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