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Originally posted by Lul Thyme


You can use Pascal's argument to prove almost anything you want. It's great:

there's a very small chance that you God is a hypocrite and will only save those who don't believe in him in which case the rewards for not believing in him are infinite (eternal blessing or whatever)
Whatever the small chance is, small * infinite is infinite therefore you should NOT believe in God, by Pascal's argument. IIRC correctly, Pascal defines God as a perfect being, so he can't really be an hypocrite.

The real question here is whether or not a logical tautology is significant. In the hands of accomplished philosophers, it probably is. After all, isn't math basically a huge tautology that gets its worth through practical use ?