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[–] 134 points 8 months ago* (10 children)

That's Pascal's wager, and it's nothing new.

There's plenty more about him that can be criticized.

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    How about the fact he used his status as a conservative voice to skip the line and get priority experimental cancer treatments? Not only did he die, but somewhere out there there is another person dead or dying because they got bumped from the treatment

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago*

    I refuse to believe the pantheons of gods didn't predict pascal's wager and hide an antipascal clause similar to Matthew 25:31 where not being an asshole will send you to heaven and being an asshole sends you to hell.

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