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Ah yes, that's the other good point. Really they are parts of the more general incoherency: "My religion is correct, while all the other religions, current or f
by cubefox 3y ago
Ah yes, that's the other good point. Really they are parts of the more general incoherency: "My religion is correct, while all the other religions, current or from the past, are mere superstition."
- CamperBob2 3y agoThen there's my favorite, Pascal's Wager: "Why not accept my particular God? What do you have to lose?" Advocates of the Wager never seem to consider what Zeus's opinion might be.
- dylan604 3y agoYour assumption is that the advocates of the Wager give a damn about Zeus to be begin with which seems flawed to me.
- cubefox 3y agoNo that's not his assumption. Pascal's wager is supposed to be an argument to believe in "God", but it is too general. It doesn't determine in which god. So the argument doesn't work.
- s_m_t 3y agoWhy would Zeus care? The greek afterlife is a sort of pointless outcome to Pascal's wager so it isn't even worth factoring in.
- CamperBob2 3y agoWhy would Zeus care? Well, once you start asking questions like that, the whole thing starts to unravel. Just play along, don't rock the boat.