My theistic friend thinks he had me with Pascal's Wager

[Baruch]

Pascal was trying to deal with the secularists of his day (deists).  He was also a Quietist ... the equivalent of a French Quaker ... and so was kind of anti-Catholic as well.  In France at that time, being anti-Catholic or deviant was something you wanted to keep quiet about.

[SGOS]

Pascal's wager has obviously not aged well, I suppose because God had no competition at the time is was proposed:



It really does seem kind of stupid now.

When anything becomes fair game for Homer Simpson to comment on, there's a good chance it's something stupid.  Not that Homer is that brilliant, but when things get stupid enough to be on his level, he sometimes has something insightfully simple to offer about them.

[peacewithoutgod]

When anything becomes fair game for Homer Simpson to comment on, there's a good chance it's something stupid.  Not that Homer is that brilliant, but when things get stupid enough to be on his level, he sometimes has something insightfully simple to offer about them.

Yes, sometimes the stupid are profoundly intelligent on some things.

[Baruch]

Exactly ... "What is mind, doesn't matter ... what is matter, never mind." ... Homer Simpson

[ApostateLois]

http://www.godchecker.com/ The fact that there are several thousand deities from which to choose, alone proves that Pascal's Wager is utter tosh. You could spend your life worshiping different gods and still never get the right one.

[Baruch]

In France it was easier ... the French only worship Frenchness ;-)