Damien Sullivan said:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:01:43PM -0500, Rick Castello wrote:
>>
>> I am, myself, an agnostic, but I've always found Paschal's Wager,
>
> Pascal's, in what I usually read.
Both spellings pop up in a great number of philosophy texts
I was required to read and purchase for coursework in Phil.
of Religion.
>> If you believe that God does not exist, and God *does* exist,
>> then you will go to Hell. (A very bad thing.)
>
> Unless God is a rationalist, and thinks all these faith-based religions
> are really dumb and silly, and only selects good skeptics for the
> afterlife. By choosing to believe without evidence you make yourself
> uninteresting in God's eyes. (A very bad thing.)
This comment has value only in its feeble attempt at humor,
as a serious response would have taken into account the far
too numerous to cite examples in various works where God
obviously gives a damn about faith.
> Or unless Odin, fattened by all the wars of Europe, has managed to
> become the supreme deity of the world, and feeds the believers to the
> Harpies, whom he recruited from the moribund Greek pantheon to help him
> out come Ragnarok.
Would this constitute faith in the All-Father? ;)
> Bet we could make more ocunterexamples...
You could *make up* lots of things... but is that useful?
-Rick