You are a fucking moron. Pascal's Wager and whether god exists don't need to be conflated, you ignorant cunt. You are trying to debate something that you don't even know anything about. They are not two separate issues. You can't debate the apologetic argument itself without questioning the existence of god.
"Pascal's Wager is an argument in apologetic philosophy devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–62).[1] It posits that humans all bet with their lives either that God exists or not."
YOU give it up, you wrongheaded dickhole.
Originally Posted by WombRaider
How brilliant of you to post the first sentence from the wikipedia page on Pascal's Wager, undercunt. Is that supposed to show your deep knowledge of the subject? Did you read the whole thing? Why don't you walk us through it? Oh wait, you can't, can you?
As I already explained, the wager itself neither proves nor attempts to prove God exists. In fact, the wager is a product of Pascal's frustration at NOT being able to prove God's existence. In his own words (from your wikipedia source):
“If I saw no signs of a divinity, I would fix myself in denial. If I saw everywhere the marks of a Creator, I would repose peacefully in faith. But seeing too much to deny Him, and too little to assure me,
I am in a pitiful state... God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here.”
So Pascal's wager was born out of frustration at his wavering, convictionless faith and inability to prove God exists. It leads him to an apologetic argument/conclusion. The argument/conclusion is that a rational person should act AS IF God exists as long as the probability is greater than zero. Pascal was a mathematician and his conclusion has a mathematical basis - using a probability matrix to compare the expected values of each possibility.
Your own wikipedia source agrees with me that Pascal's Wager and whether God exists are two separate issues:
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Pascal... did not advance the wager as a proof of God's existence but rather as a necessary pragmatic decision which is impossible to avoid for any living person.”
Of course, if we could prove God exists, then the probability would be 100%, and the probability of no God would be zero – in which case, there wouldn't be any need for a decision matrix like the one Pascal gave us. (The same holds true if we could prove God doesn't exist; just reverse the percentages.)
Is that too nuanced for you, dipshit?
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