February 6, 2007
Pascal's Wager
Click here to listen to an interesting Logically Critical podcast presenting a bit of a comical breakdown of Pascal's wager. The narrator doesn't explicitly state the problem with the logical structure of the wager, as I did in class, but he does show the practical implications of betting on any given characterization of God as not being rational, so the point is ultimately still the same.
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That was a really amusing satirical skit of Pascal's Wager...too funny. However, the very last sentence struck me as being odd: "I leave you with an atheist saying, 'I only believe in one less God than you do." Is atheism just an assault on the monotheistic society? If that is a widely held Atheist mantra, what are their views on polytheism?
I’ve never heard that line till I heard this clip but I like it and it makes sence. Atheists don’t believe in any god or gods. The saying has relevance just because most religions these days are monotheistic. They may have other prominent key figures within their beliefs but generally only one god.
After reading Pascal and then listening to the skit, the reading makes more sense. I didn't really occur to me that you not only have to believe in God to live in eternal happiness, you must believe in the "right" God. There are so many religions and beliefs that create so many possibilities to what is right and what is wrong.
I think it's true as to how they show the 'believer' judging the atheist. It also was a rather amusing way of exaggerating how sheltered religious views are. Basically it leaves you asking, "So what God is God, or is every God the same God, or... there's no God???" Ofcourse, Pascal's Wager is pretty much an easy way out.
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