Re: Pascal's Wager

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Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.org>

>Pascal's Wager has never made sense to me.

Nor to me, it is based on two assumptions: 1) God rewards virtuous behavior.
2) Faith is virtuous.

The first is far from obvious and the second utterly ridiculous. What's so great about believing in something (not wishing, believing) when there is no good reason to do so? Is stupidity virtuous?

John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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