Re: Pascal's Wager DEBUNKED
By: Atari X to All on Mon Jan 11 2010 02:55:06
> The problem with Pascal's Wager is that it is entirely reliant on ONE world
> view and it's opposite - that is, that there are only two possibilities when
> you die.
I take it as "playing it safe" writ large, a means of choosing between several
options when not enough information is available. It may be framed here as a
way to help a person choose whether or not to follow the Christian path, but it
could be applied to many different scenarios.
> Pascal's Wager says that the safest route through life is to be a good
> christian so that you'll get into heaven. If God exists, you'll spend etern
> in heaven, and if God doesn't exist, you'll have lost nothing (except your
> brief time on earth).
I think that, for a Christian who was having doubts about their faith, this
would seem like a real option. It's very flawed and very limited, but in that
situation it would work. Whereas if I started today to go through the motions
of being a Christian, without having any actual faith, I wouldn't expect for it
to be of any benefit to me in the end. There would be no point in my having
made the wager, because I have no doubts.
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