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To: Clemenza
Did you ever consider Pascal's Wager?
55 posted on 09/30/2007 7:51:53 AM PDT by B Knotts (Tancredo '08!)
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To: B Knotts
Did you ever consider Pascal's Wager?

Athiests tend to counter this by saying, "Yes, but there are SO MANY claimaints to 'god' so if I choose the 'wrong one' I am going to hell. How do you know your 'god' is the true one?"

I.e. they answer the dilemma by a counter-dilemma. Of higher multiplicity.

The answer of course is to snicker, as though they ever *really* considered Zeus as an option.

(Given the claim that all religions are man-made though, I would consider the best evidence of a man-made religion one to be which caters to people's self-importance and allows unrestricted sexual behaviour. And lo and behold! It's the modern secular Democratic Party!)

Cheers!

156 posted on 09/30/2007 3:57:18 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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