Jean Laeremans wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael Madigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1st of all as usual besides the argument. > 2nd took one of those at random ( well more or less) > > Blaise Pascal : > "Pascal's "wager" has engendered fierce criticism over the years from > the likes of, for example, William James. The "wager" argument holds > that, given the choice between a belief in Christianity and > non-belief, it is more reasonable, given the potential outcomes, to > believe in a Christian God. Despite the potential outcome, that either > God does nor does not exist, the believing Christian "wins" in that, > if God does exist, he or she will share in infinite life. If God does > not exist, both the believer and the non-believer suffer the same > fate If you ignore the 10% of your income going to the church (in older times), and all the thousands of hours spent chanting silly songs, and all the chances to get laid that you lost, and suffering a (supposedly) virgin unmarried nonworking priest giving you advice over sex marriage and work, and compulsively telling your sins to a priest, and........ > ; whereas, if God does exist, the unbeliever loses infinite life. > If you compute all religions you get that the believer's chance to have hit on the "right" religion is small.If you are for democracy and think religious rule should be for the majority, then christians loose for sure. Besides which if we make the big leap to admit the christian will be right, then you have the fact that you don't get to go to heaven automatically. I may be a believer and yet go to hell. So chances are soooo small.
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