• kibiz0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    2 years ago

    There will never be anything more illustrative of the limits of human intellect than the fact that a master logician famously argued that:

    I ought to do XYZ because there may be an omnipotent being that rewards doing XYZ

    …and did not immediately think:

    I ought not to do XYZ because there may be an omnipotent being that punishes doing XYZ

    • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      2 years ago

      As a theist, I agree. Pascal’s Wager is a terrible argument for God. It doesn’t even address the variety of religions that contradict Christianity with contradicting moral imperatives. It only works if the outcomes are “My Variant of Christian God Exists” or “No God Exists”.

    • digger@lemmy.ca
      7·
      2 years ago

      That’s why I’m working tirelessly to bring Roko’s Basilisk into being! 👍