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Subject: Re: Pascal's wager
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Date: Sun, 1-Jan-84 23:39:38 EST
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[From Pamela Troy]

There is a serious fallacy in Pascal's wager.  It assumes that the only
religion which threatens unbelievers with an unpleasant afterlife is
Christianity.  Suppose I accept Christianity on Pascal's wager and wake up
in the afterlife being judged by Osiris?  I would end up in a nasty circle
of Hell if the Moslems are right, or reincarnated as an earthworm or spider
if the Buddhists are right.  Christianity is not the only horse in the
running.
--
Tim Maroney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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