• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Pascal’s Wager is hilarious because it implies that their “omniscient” God is so stupid he can be tricked into thinking you sincerely believe. Sounds blasphemous to me!

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I suppose it depends on if you think faith is inherently important or it’s just the behavior.

      I mean his paragraph is pretty much outright silly, but broadly you can decide that acting “right” might happen to help you in an afterlife scenario. Some specifics prescribed by religion are kind of arbitrary, but there’s some common things about trying to be good to others.v Going MAGA like he did would seem to be a perilous move in that context.