Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Since you use pascal's wager as your motto would you be annoyed if us atheists us epicurus as our motto?

We don't want to sink to their level, do we? A) Pascal never intended the wager as a serious theological argument. It was found among his notes for a book on outcomes and probability, and was published posthumously. And 2) Epicurus probably never offered "his" famous paradox, since he didn't live in a culture that believed in a single omnipotent, omnibenevolent deity. What one deity might be willing to prevent, another might maliciously want to encourage.

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