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Old 2012-04-12, 07:46 AM   [Ignore Me] #527
ItsTheSheppy
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Re: Religion


Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml View Post

If I'm right, you get a firey lake of hell. If I'm wrong, we all just go to sleep forever. Either way, in the end. I win. Period.
Unless you believe in the wrong god. Then you're screwed.

And considering the sheer number of gods that humanity has already invented...

...Compounded with the literally endless possibilities for the nature of god, if one does exist, that we simply have not discovered...

It looks to me like nobody wins.

Pascal's wager is a goofy fallacy because it looks at the god question as if it's binary. Either there is a god, or there isn't. While technically true, it doesn't serve to tell the whole truth. That's like saying my choices for dinner tonight are 'spaghetti' and 'not spaghetti'. The truth is, there are a great many more options than that.

Except for the analogy to work perfectly, you'd have to be talking about dinner options for which there is no evidence of them existing. Like "Gooblechunks" and "Bangarang Pie" and "Roast Jabberwocky". It's very, very likely I won't be having any of those.
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