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As a theist, I agree. Pascal’s Wager is a terrible argument for God. It doesn’t even address the variety of religions that contradict Christianity with contradicting moral imperatives. It only works if the outcomes are “My Variant of Christian God Exists” or “No God Exists”.
There will never be anything more illustrative of the limits of human intellect than the fact that a master logician famously argued that:
…and did not immediately think:
As a theist, I agree. Pascal’s Wager is a terrible argument for God. It doesn’t even address the variety of religions that contradict Christianity with contradicting moral imperatives. It only works if the outcomes are “My Variant of Christian God Exists” or “No God Exists”.
That’s why I’m working tirelessly to bring Roko’s Basilisk into being! 👍
Are you referring to this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_wager