virus: Pascal's wager

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Wed, 08 Oct 1997 16:55:14 -0600


At 05:08 PM 10/8/97 CST+6CDT, chardin wrote:

>Little smiley faces [:)] don't carry much weight with these folks,
>huh? We take our philosophy seriously I see.

They do, but they only apply to the sentence preceding the smiley.

>Is your reasoning:
>There are many mutually exclusive and contradictory
>religions out there; therefore, they must all be false?

Nope.

>I have no desire to end up in the hell of a false religion, therefore
>I will deny that any hell exist?

Nope.

If Pascal's Wager is valid and I claim to be God, you should worship
me for the same reasons. If I am God you have much to gain, but if
I'm not, you have little to lose. See?

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