Am I the only one who thinks Pascal's Wager is a cheap argument which demeans authentic religious faith?
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this is exactly how Hitch thought of it. Said Pascal sounded like a used car salesman.
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I think most religious people would argue against pascal's wager as a method of faith. But yeah...
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What god really wants is for us to hedge out bets effectively.
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*our
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the only defense I would offer is that each person has different faith needs, perhaps this made the most sense to him.
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I don't take it as a deep theological truism, more like a thought experiment on the nature and limits of faith
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spend a bit of time reading canon law and the way it tallies sin as debt and it makes sense
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well, Pascal developed probability theory in response to problems in gambling, so it's not too far off
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doesn't this also describe many parts of Judaism?
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Elster considers Calvinist predestination as a game theoretic problem in The Cement of Society - https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cement_of_Society.html?id=TsXL7-k9V8EC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q=god&f=false …
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