I agree and Pascal was clearly intelligent enough to realize as much. This is one of the reasons I believe he was a closet atheist that wrote such thing deliberately to appease the church and allow him to publish things that had been deemed heresy before.
Trivia Note: Heresy was taken from a Greek word which meant, "to choose" or "have choices". I guess we can all understand why that turned into a curse in the minds of the church.
~FK
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, David Silvus <djsilvus@...> wrote:
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> True. Another big issue is the fact that going through the motions and saying the right words isn't quite the same thing as believing. Not by a long shot. The whole faith thing is kind of the point, at least with most Christian religions.
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> I'm not getting into whether those with faith are right or wrong, only pointing-out the fundamental error in Pascal's Wager. He loses either way, at least according to most Christian religions.
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> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:05:55 -0800
> Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: People That Live in Brick Houses Can Throw Stones
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> On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, jaywilly240 wrote:
> > Despite the triple odds you're offering for Eternal Bliss --- and the
> > quadruple penalties for eternal damnation, I'd guess countless people
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> And if you believe in reincarnation, there's freeplay involved!
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> Seriously though, one of the basic problems with Pascal's Wager is
> deciding which of many possible conflicting religions to follow.
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